"Murder" Quotation

[Fred Shapiro]

I would welcome any information pointing to the earliest findable evidence
for the anecdote about a woman being asked whether she had ever considered
divorcing her husband, and responding something like "Divorce, never.
Murder, frequently."

Fred Shapiro


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