Annie Besant Quotes About Wife
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.
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Annie Besant
- Born: October 1, 1847
- Died: September 20, 1933
- Occupation: Member of the London School Board
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