I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.