Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

I have seen these liberal psychologists and sociologists talk about there is no need for the man in the family. The woman can take care of it. A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, I’m not saying that... It does take a father, though

But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care of, clothed, housed, and reasonably sastisfied, and if they're doing anything less than that, they're not men.

Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

I really don't know what it is. He is at home doing the breakfast dishes so that his wife can attend this meeting.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

Marry good men and bear good sons.

Here are the reasons to NOT send your daughter to college: She will attract the wrong types of men. She will be in a near occasion of sin. She will not learn to be a wife and mother

In the individualist ideology, a man is responsible for his wife and children. This relegates women to domestic roles as wives and mothers protected by their menfolk, or silences them as special interest harpies demanding government benefits that will destroy individualist men.

I always carry snacks in my bag. It's a good habit to have now that I am a mom.

I never shop - my wife takes care of all of that.

I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.

I'm fortunate enough to take care of my family and provide for them, and that motivates me to keep going.

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

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

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

Historically, girls have not been encouraged to be scientists, to be explorers, and there's a social kind of constraint, of course. Having the responsibility, a disproportionate part of the responsibility, for caring for families, caring for children. I know this challenge from firsthand experience because I have three children and four grandsons.And some of the time I have spent as a scientist and as an explorer has meant choosing to not be with my children and grandchildren as much as I might otherwise have done had I not been a scientist, an explorer.

Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.

Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.