"In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape." ― Gerald Brenan Topic(s): Marriage More From Gerald Brenan "The cliche is dead poetry." "Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions." More In Marriage "There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."― C. S. Lewis "Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor – they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed."― Isabel Allende "When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage."― Queen Victoria