Top Marriage Quotes
Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married wo...
Christina Queen of Sweden
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bachelorhood, females, freedom, independence, marriage, matrimony, nuns, prisoners, queens, singles
Marriage Definition
(v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
(v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.
(v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
(v. t.) Any intimate or close union.
It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...
Antonia Fraser
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common law, empowerment, fathers, feminism, feudalism, gender, guardianship, history, husbands, independence