I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men’s wives.