Unequal Partnership Quotes

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

When there has been a problem in your marriage, you cannot forever go on thinking, 'I am the most terrible person in the world and he is the most wonderful person.' You cannot live in a marriage that is unequal, because after a while, you are just worn out.

An imperfect and somewhat unequal Confederacy is better than none.

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.