Bill Cosby Quotes
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Cosby, Bill. Love and Marriage. Bantam Books, 1989, p. 15.
This relatively radical viewpoint regarding equal rights for women was expressed by Roosevelt as his Senior thesis at Harvard in 1880. In those days, the kind of scrutiny of everything a candidate ever wrote or said that is characteristic of modern politics, did not exist. It is very doubtful that if the Republican Party officials had ever known that he had espoused these views—even as a young student, that he ever would have risen so high in the party, much less get nominated at the Vice Presidential candidate which was his entree to the Presidency. When in office however, there is no record of him reviving his youthful proposal that women who marry retain their maiden names.
She had just been appointed as the first female vice president of the Federal Council of Churches. Her husband was one of the leading theologians in the country and the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School.
William Henry Cosby Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author who held an active career for over six decades before being convicted of a number of sex offenses in 2018.