Helen Rowland Quotes

I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

In the Ukraine, contrary to the custom of all other nations, the husbands do not choose their wives, but are themselves chosen by their future consorts.

Americans are so stiff when it comes to nudity. For me, I've always walked around the house naked. My husband, in real life, is like, 'Babe, could you just put some clothes on! Keep the mystery alive!'

All our wives are experimental psychologists.

Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

I like cookery shows much more than my husband, so I put them on the minute he goes away.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.