Sister Parish Quotes

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.

My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

One fool at least in every married couple.

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.

I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.