Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.”
—
Robert A. Heinlein
,
book
I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 14, p. 224
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