Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
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The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband.
Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.