Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

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

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.

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.

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.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

The perception of how a couple should argue, whose voice should be raised and who should be a dominant player has been altered in 'Dobara Phir Se.'

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

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.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

I don't think that anyone should be in control of a relationship. I think that if you have a woman that controls her man, he is a puppet, and he is weak.

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

Just because you have chemistry with someone doesn't mean you're naturally going to be the best for each other. You have make choices and prioritize.

Men want to make women happy.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.