Quotations: B

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“I always had this suppressed ‘old-fashioned’ feeling that the husband should be the head of the household and that he should be responsible in all matters, including caring for his wife's needs. I was afraid that what happened to my parents would happen to us unless something was done to correct the situation; but I didn't know how to broach the idea that I felt that I should be in charge of the household without provoking a row!”
      - Baltazar

“[E]ven when women possess the agentic quality of dominance consistent with the leader role, the incongruence between masculinized task demands and gender stereotypes mitigate against women's leadership emergence.”
      - Barbara A. Ritter and Janice D. Yoder: Abstract, Gender Differences In Leader Emergence Persist Even For Dominant Women: An Updated Confirmation Of Role Congruity Theory (Psychology of Women Quarterly Volume 28 Issue 3 Page 187 - September 2004)

“Any woman relating to a man cannot be a feminist. ... I personally am going to keep my distance from men and straight women.”
      - Barbara Solomon: “Taking the bullshit by the horns”, in The Furies, March-April 1972, and in Lesbianism and the women's movement).

“My wife laughs like a drain to think what some of her more starchy colleagues would think if they knew we had this delicious relationship.”
      - Ben

“Love well, whip well.”
      - Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard

“ It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband...”
      - Betty Friedan

“Wives, submit yourself unto your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.”
      - The Bible: Colossians 3:18

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
      - The Bible: Genesis 2:24

“[T]hy desire shall be for thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
      - The Bible: Genesis 3:16

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.”
      - The Bible: Ephesians 5:22-25

“[L]et every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
      - The Bible: Ephesians 5:33

“[W]ives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.”
      - The Bible: 1 Peter 3:1-2

“For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.”
      - The Bible: 1 Peter 3:5-6

“[H]usbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
      - The Bible: 1 Peter 3:7

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
      - The Bible: 1 Timothy: 2:11-12

“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”
      - The Bible: 1 Corinthians 14:34

“If I feel I can't live with something, then it's arranged until I can. This is about being happy, for both of us. Gary has a fantasy of having me submissive full time. I will happily go with this until it feel uncomfortable or it is something I cannot live with. But as it is right now, I can live with this. It is very, very hot.”
      - Blush

I made a personal decision to just go ahead and be submissive. [...] It was freeing and peaceful to just let go and trust him. [My husband] pointed out [that] he's dominant and I'm submissive... (I cook his favourites; I perform any small errands he needs me to do; I rarely, if ever, deny him sex, etc.) And he went on to describe our marriage as a ship: he's the captain and I'm first mate... And if the first mate doesn't carry out the orders of the captain then it's hard to keep the ship sailing. Similarly, if the captain doesn't listen to the first mate about the situations on the ship, he can't issue any orders effectively.”
      - Bonnie

“Woman must be put back in her place. Man's great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. ... Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. ... She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.”
      - Boyd Rice: The Revolt Against Penis Envy Contributing Toward an Understanding of Male/Female Harmony, published in Answer Me!

“Fear commands respect, and pain demands understanding (read: compliance). Rape is the act by which fear and pain are united in love.”
      - Boyd Rice: ibid.

“Don't give her power. She doesn't know how to handle it.
Women ... need to be tamed.
Keep her chained down.
Break the chain and watch her walk all over you.
And you deserve it. Because you gave away your power for free.
Women say they're looking for nice guys, but they don't respect passive pussy men.
Women want their lovers to be killers.”
      - The Boyd Rice Experience: Hatesville

“No two couples will be exactly alike. And there's no magic formula that you can follow and have guaranteed success. You just have to talk, listen, and talk some more until you understand each other, and then work hard to please each other.”
      - Brandy

“A gentleman is someone who raises his hat before he beats his wife.”
      - British joke (ca. 1920)

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