Brigham Young Quotes

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With your permission, I would like to answer him." "You have it," Alec replied. "Andrew," she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, "my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.

My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

A woman who is not under the headship of the husband violates the condition of nature, the mandate of the Apostle, and the law of Scripture… We deplore publicly and regretfully that, while you are a most prudent woman, you have left your husband. The body tears at itself. The body does not sever itself from the head…. We know that unless you return to your husband, you will be the cause of widespread disaster. While you alone are now the delinquent one, your actions will result in ruin for everyone in the kingdom. Therefore, illustrious queen, return to your husband and our king

Don’t kneel to me. Kneel only to God and thank Him for your freedom

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The villagers asked him when this had happened, exactly, and Thrashbarg said it had happened yesterday, when they weren't looking. 'Have faith,' Old Thrashbarg said, 'or burn!' They let him have first pick of the sandwiches. It seemed easiest.

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.