The wife is not the slave, but the friend of her husband; the one supplies the deficiencies of the other.

In weighty questions the stronger decides, but the lesser cares of life are left to her who is the greater in small things.

The daughters grow up under careful guidance, for the mother is neither ignorant nor inexperienced.

To be virtuous and diligent in her affairs becomes easy to a woman, for she sees that it increases his happiness whose dearest possession she boasts of being, and who belongs to her alone.

The women only do that which pleases us! but the Egyptian men understand the art of making us pleased with that which is really good, and with that alone.