Religion Quote by Nawal El Saadawi

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the…

— Nicholas Evans

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She’d never been the kind of woman who angered over being told what to do. She’d never felt unequal or demeaned in a submissive…

— Elizabeth SaFleur

“She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad…

— Susannah Spurgeon

“Divinely sanctioned wife-beating “There is no basis in Islamic theology to support domestic abuse of any kind,” declared Qanta A. Ahmed, author of In…

— Robert Spencer

“To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Any man mortal or god, knows there is no handling a wife. Women handle themselves and intelligent men get out of the way.”

— Colleen Houck

“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and…

— Mary Balogh

“Those who calumniate the unaware but honorable believing women are cursed in the present life and the Hereafter. And for them is a grievous…

— The Qur'an An-Nur (23): verse 24

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to…

— Liam O'Flaherty

“I do not understand why the gods have made it so that every woman’s lot in life is to owe her security to a…

— Emily R. King