Mo'Nique Quotes

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.

I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals.

One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me, and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.

If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.

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.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

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.

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

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