Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Strong women only marry weak men.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

Good women are obedient. If they are not, send them to separate beds … and beat them.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

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.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.

She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

All women like to look up to their men.

I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.