My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
James Dobson

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Mary Calderone

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
June Allyson

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
Indra Devi

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
Shirley MacLaine

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
Ann Bancroft

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Thomas Dekker

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.
Jackie Collins

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Thomas R. Dewar

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.
Mercedes McCambridge

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
George Byron

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Jessica Savitch

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
Pepper Schwartz

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
Indra Devi

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Mary Wesley