My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.
When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
Many believe children complete a marriage, and I like kids, too.
I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't.
I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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.
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
Women should let go their responsibilities of kitchen and should take coaching classes of how to give pleasure.
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!
The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.
I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.
The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.
Sex is still the most interesting subject under the sun. People will say my wife is too tired or my husband is too tired, and I listen and I say 'go for help.'
I feel like Nick and I have the best relationship and the best marriage.
Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.
The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.
I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."
