“For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways - for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask for: emotional connection, presence, intimacy. Sex with enough foreplay, enough seduction, enough closeness to please them. Men are baffled not only because the needs they are being asked to fill differ so from what their fathers and grandfathers understood to be their jobs but also because full-fledged intimacy requires strengths and skills they’ve never learned. Moreover… they’re strengths and skills that were once left solely to women: Men didn’t have to develop them. This maturational mismatch may be contributing to distrust among lovers of all ages.” 
― Dalma Heyn

“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.” 
― George Eliot

“I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.” 
― Elisabeth Elliot

“They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.” 
― Arthur Golden

“Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter?” 
― Georgette Heyer

“Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert