Women careers and obedience (Berry)
March 23rd, 2008 | Published in Gender Issues, Work, Quotes, Culture
Why would any woman who would refuse, properly, to take the marital vow of obedience (on the ground, presumably, that subservience to a mere human being is beneath human dignity) then regard as “liberating” a job that puts her under the authority of a boss (man or woman) whose authority specifically requires and expects obedience?
—Wendell Berry, “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine” in What Are People For? (1990), p. 183.