Robin Cook Quotes

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

A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

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

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

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.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

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

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.