Unequal Partnership Quotes

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

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.

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.