“That certain women were ready to sell themselves caused no excessive disgust in Isabelle. It was inevitable that a number of both men and women should compromise the institution of marriage by marrying for money, and once that happened there could be no question of impressing on the toughly logical female mind the unique vileness of prostitution. She had sometimes wondered, too, whether the contempt men felt for women who market their favors did not in part proceed from from the sense of grievance eternally felt by buyers against vendors.”
Source: The Thinking Reed (1936), Chapter VI
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Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 71

Muslims need critical thinking - Irshad Manji http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2004/0818verhofstadt.html August 18, 2004 (interview by Dirk Verhofstadt)

“Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.”
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
As quoted in Road Signs for Success (1993) by Jim Whitt, p. 61.
1970s and later