Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
BARBARA MERTZMany persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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