Bettina Arndt famous quotes

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
-- Bettina Arndt

#Love #Marriage #Men

The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.
-- Bettina Arndt

#Husband #Grateful #Credit

The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.
-- Bettina Arndt

#Mother #Husband #Work

Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.
-- Bettina Arndt

#Husband #Home #Wife

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.