“I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.” YearsRealEnoughEnjoyEmotionResponsibilityWifeWorstMarriedMiserableSeventeenMarried WomenSeventeen Years Old Author:Mary Martin
“Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.” NeedsCountryMotherResponsibilityTalkingWifeBillsClintonEmpoweringGenesWives And Mothers Author:Tina Brown
“Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let’s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsMotherAsksChallengesResponsibilityPrinciplesWifeFairsCreatorMy WifeLondonAustraliaStableTomsFoxesCnnBarbaraMuslim Women Author:Khalid Yasin
“Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.” MenGivingWellsChildrenCareResponsibilityWifeShareEconomicHusbandGiving UpAssumingFinancialWell BeingExclusiveBeing A WomanParentalChild CareResponsibility For Children Author:Augustus
“Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.” WantActionMotherForgetResultsBehindsResponsibilityWifeShareProtectAssumingMotherhoodMotiveDestructiveSparesUnselfishUnproductiveWives And Mothers Author:Hortense Odlum
“The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she is married to me? Or is she like Christ in spite of me? Has she shrunk from His likeness because of me? Do I sanctify her or hold her back? Is she a better woman because she is married to me?” MenChristResponsibilityWifeHe ManMarriedMy WifeSpiteHusband And WifeSanctificationSanctifyBetter Woman Author:R. Kent Hughes
“Husbands and wives are equal partners. They have different but complementary responsibilities.” DifferentResponsibilityWifeHusbandEqualPartnersHusband And WifeComplementary Author:Quentin L. Cook
“I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.” WellsKidsResponsibilityWorryFourWifeRelishGreat Responsibility Author:Eddie Marsan