“Male society has sold us the idea of marriage . . . . Now we know it is the institution that has failed us and we must work to destroy it. . . . The end of the institution of marriage is the necessary condition for the liberation of women.”

Source: Do-Gooders – How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help, by Mona Charen, 2004, page 124.
Hardcopy: Printout of 8-29-05 webpage with the quote.
Where: In the 1973 manifesto, co-authored with Nancy Lehmann, titled Declaration of Feminism, which was distributed widely and highly praised.
When: 1973.
Contributor: AIM.

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“Marriage has existed for the benefit of men; and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women. . . . We must work to destroy it. . . . The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men. . . . All of history must be rewritten in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft.”

Source: The Death of the West, by Patrick J. Buchanan, 2002, page 41.
Hardcopy: Copy of page 41 from Buchanan’s book.
Where: In the 1973 manifesto, co-authored with Nancy Lehmann, titled Declaration of Feminism, which was distributed widely and highly praised.
When: 1973.
Contributor: AIM.

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