“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

— Marilyn Monroe

As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

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