Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.