This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
“I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“When Heaven has an earthquake you fall to your knees and feel through the rubble to find the pieces of God. When… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow. — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
