E. M. Forster Quotes

When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

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.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

I like to be controlled, but that doesn't mean controlled like a dog.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

People think that when they come up to me, screaming things into my ear, that I will respond according to what they want. I'll turn around and smile and take the photo. But I'm not somebody's marionette.

No one manipulates me.

Marriage changes everything. I want full control over my life. When you share your life with somebody else, you can't have full control. You have to give a lot of control away. You share each other's lives.

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.

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.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find The Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love.