Compulsory Purchase

Famous quotes containing the words compulsory and/or purchase:

“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;”
—Thomas Flatman (1637–1688)