"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?"
About this Quote
The intent is misdirection with teeth. Celebrity culture wants women to be legible: virtuous, fallen, redeemed, repeat. “How many husbands?” is shorthand for a whole courtroom of assumptions about worth, stability, and sexual license. Gabor’s response detonates that script by widening the category of “husband” to absurdity, implying a carousel of quasi-marital entanglements while keeping the details safely offstage. She gives the audience what it came for - naughtiness - while also mocking the hunger for it.
The subtext is also a brand statement. Gabor, the mid-century glamour import turned Hollywood fixture, understood that her public identity was a kind of camp aristocracy: untouchable, outrageous, always a little in on the joke. The line frames marriage not as sacred destiny but as social currency and comedic material, and it quietly exposes the double standard: a man with many marriages is “romantic,” a woman is “reckless.” Gabor’s genius is to answer the judgment with a wink so sharp it counts as self-defense.
Quote Details
| Topic | Witty One-Liners |
|---|---|
| Source | Quote attributed to Zsa Zsa Gabor: "How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?" (commonly cited quip; no specific primary-source year provided) |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Gabor, Zsa Zsa. (2026, January 14). How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/how-many-husbands-have-i-had-you-mean-apart-from-2501/
Chicago Style
Gabor, Zsa Zsa. "How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?" FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/how-many-husbands-have-i-had-you-mean-apart-from-2501/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?" FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/how-many-husbands-have-i-had-you-mean-apart-from-2501/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






