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Quotes About Authority

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.
~ Ilona Andrews
Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.
~ Irene Thomas
The reason men rule is because women let them.
~ Jessica Zafra
I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.
~ Jimmy Carter
When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Women have to be controlled- we're just too emotional.
~ Laura Schlessinger
If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.
~ Laura Schlessinger
'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.'
~ Lauren Conrad
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
~ Lisa See
It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
~ Marlo Thomas
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.
~ Mary Blakely
You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I like the idea of a strong woman in charge.
~ Peter M. Lenkov
It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.
~ Ogden Nash
you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
~ Ouida
There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.
~ Rupert Everett
Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you.
~ Rush Limbaugh
In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.
~ Rush Limbaugh
It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.
~ Scott Adams