Domestic Hierarchy Quotes

The husband … might give the wife moderate correction, for as he was to answer for her misbehavior, he ought to have the power to control her.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

I'm a big wuss, and not the king in the least. My wife is.

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

It is of public concern in many instances to merge their identity and give dominance to the husband.

Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

My wife and I definitely do not want to be like the maamiyars and maamanars in teleserials.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

When I come home, my wife is the boss.

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.

Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'

Being managed by your wife means you just get told what to do all the time as opposed to some of the time.

My mother was top billing in our house.

I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.

My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.

The wife is in the power of her husband.