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“What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.”

Men Easy Church Wife Duty Husband Judgment Affection Submit

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.”

Two Names Duty Bears Husband Customs Vienna

Book:Turkish Embassy Letters

Source: Turkish Embassy Letters

“Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.”

Thinking Children Church Careers Duty Ten Husband Balls Housework Schoolwork

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.”

Reality Kids Principles Wife Duty Husband Divorce Assumption Buried Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.”

Men Wife Duty Husband Stronger Muscles Submit

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties fell to me and this resentment builds, as I think happens to a lot of young parents who have competing careers.”

Thinking Two Home Happens Young Parent Careers Duty Baby Husband Demand My Husband Resentment Competing Young Parents

Author:Paula Broadwell

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”

Ifs Men Father Literature Women Wife Duty Citizens Words Of Wisdom Husband Creatures Rational Neglect Good Wife Vindication Husband And Father

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?”

Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians