Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

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

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

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.

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.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.

The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.

This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.

Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.