Spousal Responsibilities Quotes

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

I have a list of stuff I need to do during the day. I try to do a couple of hours of professional stuff, be it hockey stuff I haven't gotten to the last little while, husband stuff, everything to repairing stuff around the house that I neglected around the winter.

Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

Indian women usually tend to forget themselves once married.

Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.

Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.