Property rights Quote by Timothy Egan

“Both polygamy and divorce, on the other hand, increased opportunities for reproduction—not for women, but for the men who wrote the laws and benefited…

— Elaine Pagels

“It is one of the great ironies of Mormon history that Smith, who set the polygamous movement in motion, never experienced it in practical…

— Todd M. Compton

Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are…

— Robert Wright

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best,…

— Henry Adams

Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family and would…

— Ramzan Kadyrov

Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or third wife.…

— Yanar Mohammed

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as…

— Ariel Pink

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

— Elbert Hubbard

The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the…

— Leonard J. Arrington

“Similarly, women collectively are coerced into marriage although any woman is free to remain single. William Thompson compared women’s freedom to decline to marry…

— Carole Pateman

“Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The essence of the tribal lineage was the descent of property through the male line. But producing a male heir under medieval conditions of…

— Nicholas Wade