Domestic Servitude Quotes

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. Hardly any slave, except one immediately attached to the master's person, is a slave at all hours and all minutes

Marriage is too much like slavery not to be involved in its fate.

The wife owes service and labor to her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his master.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

It is a debasement of our common humanity that must be called by its true name, modern slavery …. When a woman is locked in a sweatshop, or trapped in a home as a domestic servant, alone and abused and incapable of leaving—that’s slavery.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.

She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

The very nature of the marriage contract was…nothing but giving up liberty, estate, authority, and everything to man, and the woman was indeed a mere woman ever after – that is to say, a slave.

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.

The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Marriage is to woman a state of slavery. It takes from her the right to her own property, and makes her submissive in all things to her husband.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.