Sara Pascoe Quotes

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

Our ancestors saw fit that females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority

Just as livestock is property, so women are property And livestock brings blame to its owner.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.