Marital Subordination Quotes

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

Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

It is of public concern in many instances to merge their identity and give dominance to the husband.

Islamic Law [Sharia] … gives men the right to marry more than one woman, and refers to women as “complementary” rather than “equal” to men.

you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.

He (man) has made her (woman), if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property. even to the wages she earns.