These guys don't exactly follow the ideas of, say Gloria Steinham. They are mob guys in the '40s and '50s. Wives were meant to have kids and men were meant to cheat and beat.
Reminds me of that great De Niro line in Analyze this when Billy Crystal finds out he has a mistress and asks if he is having marital problems and De Niro says no. Crystal asks then why does he have a mistress and De Niro says very self righteously, my wife uses her mouth to kiss my children!
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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