All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.