Marriage Roles Quotes

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

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.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.

I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

My wife usually gives me a project... I like going to work because I can be the boss for once.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

To be a trophy wife, you have to be a trophy. I am more of a commemorative plaque.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.

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

There is nothing wrong being a house husband, and I do believe there is something right about it.