Top 2 Harriet Hanson Robinson Quotes
#1. By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.

#2. The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

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