“The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”
“A wife should submit herself to her husband, her husband should make her great if he wants to enjoy her.”
“His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her religion, and the husband fate had dealt her”
“You don’t ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker.”
“Annie is my wife, and she will remain wi' me as my wife, subject only to my rule. I will suffer no man to dishonor her or lay hand upon her so long as I live.”
“A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.”