Marriage Oppression Quotes

#1. You have been resident in my house three months?"
"Yes, sir."
"And you came from
?"
"From Lowood school, in -shire."
"Ah! a charitable concern. How long were you there?"
"Eight years."
"Eight years! you must be tenacious of life.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.
Fine. I don't you like you, either.

N.K. Jemisin

#3. How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Christine De Pizan

#4. One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards

Oche Otorkpa

#5. Let's hope it doesn't come to that," Ian put in. "Just fridge yourselves, as Jonah says."
"Dude," Dan said. "Do you mean chill?"
"Precisely. Just what I said.

Jude Watson

#6. Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?

Elaine Stritch

#7. The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.

Barry Hughart

#8. I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Janis Joplin

#9. Some of you are most likely thinking that white is not really a colour and all of that tired sort of nonsense. Well, I'm here to tell you that it is. White is without question a colour, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.

Markus Zusak

#10. It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

Bill Gates

#11. The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.

James Lee Burke

#12. His marriage was of infinitely more salvation to the laird than if it had set him free from all his worldly embarrassments, for it set him growing again - and that is the only final path out of oppression.

George MacDonald

#13. We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

Anker Jorgensen

#14. Pay heed, my darlings, and always take the greatest care over the company you keep in life: if death strikes you without warning, you may be stuck with them til the moon turns to blood and wouldn't that be a torment?

Karen Maitland

#15. I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

John Le Carre

#16. there has been a dramatic decrease in birth and survival rates of caribou calves. It seems that rising temperatures have changed the growing patterns of plants that are the source of critical energy for caribou calves, as well as for their mothers during reproduction and lactation.

Naomi Klein

#17. Thank God for the white male power structure.

Daniel Von Bargen

#18. The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

Friedrich Engels

#19. The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

Jimmy Wales