Food chain Quote by Reem Gaafar

“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,…

— Jane Austen

“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

“It's commonly believed that there's less pressure on a woman to be married these days than there used to be. If that's true, if…

— Sarah Miller

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen

“Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything…

— Oscar Wilde

“...As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the…

— Ruth Brandon

“From the earliest times, female domestic servants have been viewed as snacks for the sexual appetites of their masters.”

— Eric Berkowitz

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

— Helen Reddy

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or…

— Adrienne Rich

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

— Susan B. Anthony

“Why did tradition always insist that ignorance was the optimum state for important transactions involving women?”

— Curtis Craddock