When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.
A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.
He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.
That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.