Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fu...lfillment; it's better than motherhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable clas...s of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we are not dreamers or fanatics; and we know that the ballot when we get it, will achieve for woman no more than it has achiev...ed for man.... The ballot is not even half the loaf; it is only a crust--a crumb. The ballot touches only those interests, either of women or men, which take their root in political questions. But woman's chief discontent is not with her political, but with her social, and particularly her marital bondage. The solemn and profound question of marriage ... [ellipsis in source] is of more vital consequence to woman's welfare, reaches down to a deeper depth in woman's heart, and more thoroughly constitutes the core of the woman's movement, than any such superficial and fragmentary question as woman's suffrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are i...n bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for... willing bondage to irremediable weakness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as s...laves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritoriou...s demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am heartily tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil. I wish it was at an end.... We are both physically very hea...lthy.... Our tempers are cheerful. We are social and popular. But it is one of our greatest comforts that the pledge not to take a second term relieves us from considering it. That was a lucky thing. It is a reform--or rather a precedent for a reform, which will be valuable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »