Matrimonial Obligations Quotes

I think I'm more demanding than any wife.

Marriage is reckon’d a lay contract in Carolina.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Do not understand me as intimating that the black race are by nature more depraved than the whites, for I believe the whole human family without regard to race or complexion are creatures of circumstance we are all more or less influenced by the surroundings. Abuses of matrimonial obligations by the blacks have not only been tolerated by the whites, but has been for ages encouraged and sanctioned by influencial [sic] legislative bodies. Therefore the wonder is that it is no worse.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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.

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.