When FUJIWARA no Michinaga proposed to MINAMOTO no Rinshi, Bokushi's husband Masanobu was planning to make Rinshi the Empress of Emperor Ichijo and tried to refuse the proposal, but Bokushi was against her husband because of the big age gap between Rinshi and the Emperor, and let Michinaga marry into her family as her son-in-law.
藤原道長が源倫子に求婚した折に夫の雅信は倫子を一条天皇の妃にしようと画策しており、これを断ろうとしたが、穆子が倫子と天皇とでは年齢的に不釣合いであるとしてこれに反対し、道長を婿に迎え入れさせた。