Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

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

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first.

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than for a ministry.

We don't put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I'm working a lot and Cory's home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it's not like, 'Oh, I'm going to wait until my wife gets home, and she's going to be doing all that.'

I don't think guys inherently don't want to clean. I think the roles are most definitely changing, but I think in a good relationship, it's never been defined as 'a lady does this and a guy does this.' I think, in most working, healthy relationships, everybody does a little bit of everything.

I have no interest in having my wife as my manager and I don't think she has to because it would be kind of cliche. It's almost in the line of expectations where it's like, oh of course you're going to put them together, and I don't want that.

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

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

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

It's always fascinating to me, one, when they like to throw President [Bill] Clinton's behavior in Secretary [Hillary] Clinton's face, I've never seen anything like it before in my entire career, of watching a woman have to defend the behavior of her husband, because she chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.

The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.

The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of feminism raised its head. You're a girl, you're a young woman, what do you do? You go off to college. That's what she did. Why do you go? To meet your husband. That's what she did. She wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for her husband.

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.