To make this matter still plainer, suppose this government was under the control of the female instead of the male influence, and suppose our female government should enact laws which required the men when they entered the marriage union to alienate their right to hold their own property-their right to hold their future earnings-their right to their own homes-their right to their own offspring, if they should have any-their right to their personal liberty-and all these rights be passed over into the hands of their wives for safe keeping, and so long as they chose to be married men, all their claims on our womanly government for protection should be abrogated entirely by this marriage contract.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
The tragedy she has witnessed must enact itself once more for Euthykles and her, he writing as she dictates.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Patriotism often depends on an influence too subtle for analysis, and yet they would enact drastic laws to bind all Europe in one bond.
"Psycho-Phone Messages"
Francis Grierson