...that dream world which is precisely the 'metaphysical world of woman,' the ideal, static woman, who is so much less troublesome than the real article... For the celibate who prefers not to be tied down to a wife, or whose canonical situation forbids marriage, the 'Mary' of his imagination could appear to be the ideal spouse. p. 161

Marriage is not ownership and wives are not property.

In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me

Women are not men’s belongings.

In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore.

A woman is not property, but a noble and free human being. No one can give her to anyone in exchange for a peace deal and/or to end animosity.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

English Translation: ...Women are not a cheaters (to their husbands), and the ones who cheat on (their husband), are not women.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself. (p61)

In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.

We live in a patriarchal imaginary where men cannot conceptualise women as fully human. What’s really important is how this shit resides in us, how this just lives in us, man, even if we’re the good guy – it should give a motherfucker pause.