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Alexander Herzen on Wedding

1812–1870 Russia

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Without equality there can be no real marriage. The wife who is excluded from all the interests that occupy her husband, who is alien to them and does not share them, may be a concubine, a housekeeper, a nurse, but not a wife in the full, honourable sense of the word.

My Past and Thoughts (1852)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Herzen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.