E. V. Lucas Quotes

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

While women prefer to have a higher-earning power, men generally prefer to be the higher-earning partner in a relationship. This simple but profound difference … has powerful consequences for the so-called pay gap. If the pay gap were magically eliminated, … simple arithmetic suggests that half the women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate. The pay gap helps to promote and sustain marriages.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married.

Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purpose. We're just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

I'll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it's time to get married, I'm going to be an amazing wife.