"Matriarchate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... frankly, as no one had had such an opportunity before to speak to Mormon women alone. So I made the most of my privilege. I gave a brief history of the marriage institution in all times and countries, of the matriarchate, when the mother was the head of the family and owned the property and children; of the patriarchate, when man reigned supreme and woman was enslaved; of polyandry, polygamy, monogamy, and prostitution. We had a full and free discussion of every phase of the question, ...
— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
