Marriage Quote by Rebecca Traister

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was…

— Andrea Dworkin

“They say rape is the practice of sexual intercourse without consent but in my case, I did consent. I knew it wasn’t him. I…

— Lunga Noélia Izata

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

— Gloria Steinem

“These chicken chokers. Didn’t bother to read any feminist theory beyond that outdated Andrea Dworkin tripe. Nothing sex-positive. Nothing along the lines of Naomi…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“This explains the harsh nature of much postmodern rhetoric. The regular deployments of ad hominem, the setting up of straw men, and the regular…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so…

— Lance B. Wickman

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

— David Blankenhorn

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress…

— Jack Kingston

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of…

— Frederick Douglass

“The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when…

— Zak Orth