Honorable Quote by Emily Dickinson

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

— William Shakespeare

Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts…

— Lemuel K Washburn

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“How, then, was she--his wife, who'd taken a vow to remain with him in sickness and in health--supposed to justify ending the marriage and…

— Nicholas Sparks

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to…

— John Calvin

“A wife should submit herself to her husband, her husband should make her great if he wants to enjoy her.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“[He] wanted her to be his. But despite her mother's confidence, Charlotte was still too hesitant for words to be rashly spoken. He needed…

— Carolyn Miller

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she…

— James Joyce

“a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience…

— Donna Leon

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

— Euripides

“He should marry her, — or there should be something done which should make the name of Winifred Hurtle known to the world! She…

— Anthony Trollope