David Bailey Quotes

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the greatest director I've ever worked with.'

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

You just got to remember that mine and Dana White's relationship is like we're a husband and wife. I do the man's stuff around the house. I do the fighting, all the man's stuff, and he does all the woman stuff - all the yapping.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened.

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.