In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

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Topic

Equality in relationships Marriage Men and women

Author

Lucretia Mott

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Women's right activist Activist Reformer

From

United States

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Citation

Mott, Lucretia. Spoken by Mott and written down by Susan B. Anthony. c. 1829.

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Source
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Medium
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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

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Sexual revolution Men and women

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Midge Decter
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English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Decter, Midge. The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1972, pt. 2, ch. 2.