Acquire Quote by Honore de Balzac

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to…

— Lysander Spooner

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

— Samuel Richardson

People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance;…

— Christabel Pankhurst

First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic…

— Anonymous

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

— Robert A. Heinlein

From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership…

— Thorstein Veblen

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of…

— Robert Graves

[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…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not…

— Thomas Hardy

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

— Robert Jordan

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right…

— Susan B. Anthony

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere…

— Alexis de Tocqueville