Marital Power Quotes

An obedient wife commands her husband.

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

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

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

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

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

A man has the right in Sharia to discipline his wife, but … God says that the best of you will never use this power.

The wife is in the power of her husband.

For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had one master, while a husband could enjoy many mistresses. It is as though, having denied women their cake for so long, the makers have no wish to see them enjoy it.