Lisa Kleypas Quotes

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, 'Well, if that thing I do that I don't want to stop doing makes you mad, I don't need to be with you. Bye!' And then he'd leave me. Forever.

Being managed by your wife means you just get told what to do all the time as opposed to some of the time.

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

What higher property do you have than your own person? I totally agree, by the way, with John Locke's idea that one's body is literally the most precious property that exists. I would say that conscription is the most heinous violation of property that one can imagine.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open." Have you been watching Oprah again?

As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.