Christopher Hampton Quotes

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

All men hate the nagging.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

We had thought you had been ruler over your land ... but now we perceive that there be other men that do rule, and not men but peasants and merchants ... and you flow in your maidenly estate like a maid.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?

It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor's kitchen was a huge letdown. I won't forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.

The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about to killing or torture. It's to humiliate. So the oppressed feel degraded. And both the oppressed understand and the oppressors understand. It's constant.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Here's a history lesson: when men took power of their lands, all of a sudden, women became a prize. In order for us to be protected, we had to make sure that we had our partner on our side. We were put in a position where our vulnerability was a life and death scenario. And we were taken advantage of, and we were put in a certain place that we had never been put in before.

It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.