“People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.” PeopleKindMadeReasonSexWifeMarriedPermanentTemporaryProstitutionBargainsMaintenance Author:Christabel Pankhurst
“The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.” HouseWifeSecurityReturnHusbandPermanentEmployee Author:Germaine Greer
“The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.” WayMadeCareLyingGivenEasyWifeEffectsProduceDiseaseResponsiblePatientInventionCuresPermanentFalsehoodPledgeCapsDiagnosisEpidemicsDrunkennessSigningPatentsSaloonsPerjuryForgeryAprons Author:Jane Swisshelm