Marital Coercion Quotes

…American women… have learned it should be for them to decide when and how often they shall take upon themselves the sacred duties of motherhood, but as law and custom give to the husband absolute control of the wife’s person, she is forced to not only violate physical law, but to outrage the holiest instincts of her being to maintain even a semblance of that freedom which by nature belongs to every human soul.

A wife is sold into the hands of her husband and must endure his embraces though she may have a hundred causes to hate and abominate him.

You are forbidden to inherit women against their will.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

Forcing a woman to marry someone she does not want and preventing her from wedding someone she chooses ... is not permissible. Anyone who insists on forcing a woman ... to marry against her will is disobeying God and His Prophet.

None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.