Marital Hierarchy Quotes

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

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.

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.

Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.

Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.

I married beneath me—all women do.

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Islamic Law [Sharia] … gives men the right to marry more than one woman, and refers to women as “complementary” rather than “equal” to men.

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.