David Viscott 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.

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

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

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

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

I don't think any relation can work if one dominates. It has to be an equal relation for it to be successful and happy.

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 is a partnership, not a democracy.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

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.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.