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Women's Voices: Quotations by Women
Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis
Quotation: The nuclear family is the building block of American society, and the social, religious, educational and economic institutions of society are designed to maintain, support and strengthen family ties even if the people involved can't stand the sight of one another.  [Battered Wives, 1977]
Quotation: The door behind which the battered wife is trapped is the door to the family home.  
Quotation: We love each other, we have similar interests. Our lives were very similar even before we met. (on her 50+ year relationship with Phyllis Lyon)
Quotation: To understand the lesbian as a sexual being, one must understand woman as a sexual being. (with Phyllis Lyon)
Quotation: The sex act itself is neither male nor female: it is a human being reaching out for the ultimate in communication with another human being. (with Phyllis Lyon)
Quotation: For instance the common-law doctrine had been modified to allow the husband 'the right to whip his wife, provided that he used a switch no bigger than his thumb' -- a rule of thumb, so to speak. (see article)
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