Lives of the Wives Quotes

“(In the United States, marital rape was not a crime in all fifty states until 1993.)”
― Carmela Ciuraru, Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages – A Provocative Look at Famous Writers, Jealous Rage, and the Role of Money and Power

“once said in an interview. Born in a grim suburb of London in 1922, he was an only child in a family “frightened of toppling into the working class.” He had no sense of managing or saving money and maintained a lifelong indifference to it. Kingsley’s relationship with Jane was hardly his first experience with infidelity. (Martin once described him as “a man who used to live for adultery.”) Taking to heart the old adage “Do what you love,” Kingsley had cheated on Hilly since the birth”
― Carmela Ciuraru, Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages – A Provocative Look at Famous Writers, Jealous Rage, and the Role of Money and Power