Relationship Power Quotes

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Strong women only marry weak men.

If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

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.

If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

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

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

When I come home, my wife is the boss.

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

You always have to make sure your husband knows he isn't going to be replaced.

What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.