John IrvingIn this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me
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In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me. This quote shows that the way we think about women has changed over the years and for the worse. When I was growing up, I remember my mom telling me stories of her life as a young woman and hearing her say: "If you don't like what a guy wants to do, you've got two choices: be his whore or be his wife." That's an outdated view of marriage and it's one that should be retired.
We can all agree that in today's world that there are too many unwanted pregnancies, too many cases of domestic violence and too many women who are abused by their partners. It's hard to believe that this sort of thing is still occurring in our country. Apparently, these things are still happening because men (and some women) may not understand what real love is, but they don't need to if they know what love should look like.
This quote speaks to how people can be both married and whores at the same time, which opens up the idea that marriage, by its very nature, is whoring. Everyone knows that sex makes money so why would anyone ever get married? The simple answer is because then they can avoid having to pay for sex.
Source: The World According To Garp
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