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Marriage Quote by Carole Pateman

“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is . . . however brutal a tyrant she may unfortunately be chained to – though she may know that he hates her, . . . he can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being, that of being made…” quote by Carole Pateman
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““No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is . . . however brutal a tyrant she may unfortunately be chained to – though she may know that he hates her, . . . he can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being, that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations.26 At about the same time, in the United States, Elizabeth Cady Stanton declared that ‘society as organized today under the man power, is one grand rape of womanhood’.27””

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