Acquire Quote by Lysander Spooner

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

— Sol Wachtler

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to…

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

— Milton Berle

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

— Barack Obama

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

— Samuel Richardson

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 my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“In contrast, “community property” states have no inheritance requirements for spouses. Instead, spouses are protected by the rule that each spouse owns one-half of…

— Denis Clifford

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the…

— Rebecca West

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