Marital Duties Quotes

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

A woman’s good goes to her husband and her bad to her kin.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Why should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake?

I am a good wife, so I think we need to live where my husband is working.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

After a hard day's work on the sets, I can't imagine allotting time to pander to the whims of a husband.

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

My husband's duty is to the country, and mine is to the family.

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.