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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him read more
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they read more
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that read more
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A read more
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, read more
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
