Life Quote by John Steinbeck

“It was one thing to read about a society obsessed with female purity—quite another to find yourself living in one.”

— Emily Croy Barker

“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that…

— Anthony Trollope

“He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married…

— R.K. Narayan

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

“Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control themselves? Why,…

— Mona Eltahawy

“Crucially, many of those radically single and late-married women were the ones who were able to devote their unmarried, nonmaternal lives to changing the…

— Rebecca Traister

“Sex was a lot of things, but it could be analyzed in quasi-economic terms. If women were shamed into traditional marriage-only monogamy and the…

— Zeb Haradon

“It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstances in which he…

— Milan Kundera

“Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.”

— Melvin Musera

“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what…

— H.G.Wells

“Women need a reason to have sex; men need only a place.”

— Nelson DeMille

“the weird possibility of marriage loomed. It loomed, in part, because there weren’t very many appealing models of what other kinds of female life…

— Rebecca Traister