Arrangements Quote by Sylvia Fraser

In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed,…

— John Stuart Mill

“In some ways it is the ultimate alienation in our society that the ability to give birth has been transformed into a liability. The…

— Frederick Engels

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child,…

— Henry Adams

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues,…

— George Santayana

“In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual freedom. Eighteenth-century parents allowed their daughters to spend…

— Leora Tanenbaum

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately… I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality…

— James Boswell

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be.…

— Colson Whitehead

I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become "fathers…

— Mamoru Hosoda

The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having…

— Edward Abbey

To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters…

— Ruth Stout

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

— Albert Einstein

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such…

— Angelina Grimke