Jerry Reed Quotes

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

Don't wanna marry nobody, if they're already married.

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

The overpowering male sex drive must be channeled toward possession of females.

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)

I want to feel that I own things.

I've always been someone who's kept my private life a little private. When there's a ring on my finger, I'll talk about it.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.