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NUMBER:39519
QUOTATION:Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
ATTRIBUTION:John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), British philosopher, economist. The Subjection of Women, ch. 4 (1869).

See Mill on wives.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Mill Collection.
 
 
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