Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.

Girls and boys also face the societal pressure to get married which I find wrong.

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

Women don't want to win, they want a winner.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

I think my wife puts up with me 'cause I try. I think that's all any guy can do is just try. That's right! 'Cause we ain't never gunna get it. 'Cause as soon as we get close you ladies change it. It's like this memo goes out, 'they're getting close, change it, change it!'

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.