“She obeys me, but only because she wants to.”
“It’s the only justification for obedience,” Ged observed.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Those who can, must obey.

A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.

[W]omen are born with the obligation to obey their husbands even if they're fools.

My duty is to obey orders.

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

That ... is the road to the obedience of compulsion. But there is a shorter way to a nobler goal, the obedience of the will. When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves. You may prove this on all sides: you may see how the sick man will beg the doctor to tell him what he ought to do, how a whole ship’s company will listen to the pilot.

The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.’ ‘Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

We must do the thing we must
Before the thing we may;
We are unfit for any trust
Till we can and do obey.