Wife Beating

Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or beating:

    What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what
    Is a theatre? are they two and not one? can they exist separate?
    Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion,
    O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)