Marital Subjugation Quotes

The very being and existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. Hardly any slave, except one immediately attached to the master's person, is a slave at all hours and all minutes

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.

Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

… laws make every married woman what she is, a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, her master's commands, and serves her master's passions

Marriage is such a lottery …. the poor woman is virtually a slave to her husband.

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.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.