The Kreutzer Sonata Group #13 Lauren Gruter Mason Field Chelsea O’Hara Sammy Murray

“Marriage without love is not marriage at all” -Lady

“And she shall fear her husband. That’s the kind of fear.” -Old Merchant

“Yes, but how are you to live with a man if you have no love for him?” -Lady

“the woman is obligated to nurse her child and be the mistress of her husband at one and the same time.” -Pozdnischeff

“They join in marriage people who do not love each other, and then they are astonished that such couples do not live happily...it is only animals you can treat in that way” -Lady

“Don’t trust your horse in the field nor your wife in the home” -Old Merchant

“Love is the preference of one person for another, to the exclusion of every one else” -Lady

“If he had given her a thorough good taming, I’ll go bail she’d be living with him to-day. Never let them have their way from the very beginning” -Old Merchant

“You give yourselves liberty, while you want to keep us women behind bolts and bars” -Lady

“As Eve, the woman, once was created from man’s rib, so she will remain till the end of time.” -Old Merchant

“In the next place, that every marriage not based upon this natural predilection (or love, if you prefer the term), is devoid of the element that makes it morally binding.” -Lawyer

“I was convinced I possessed an indefeasible right to my wife, just as if she was not mine, and that she could dispose of herself as she liked, and that she minded to dispose of herself in a manner that I did not approve.” -Pozdnischeff

“She resembled a well-fed, wanton, harnessed horse…and from whom the briddle has been suddenly removed. There was no curb of any kind, as there is no curb of any kind to hold in 99% of our women. I felt this, and I was seized with horror.” -Pozdnischeff

“As to that which was the most important point of all, for me,-her guilt, her faithlessness -she did not consider it deserving of even a passing allusion.” -Pozdnischeff

“On this I began to explain, that I was not to blame, that it was she who had lashed me into fury with her stinging reproaches” - Pozdnischeff

“I remembered the expression of their faces. I remember it because at the time it afforded me an excruciating pleasure.” -Pozdnischeff

“Why is it, let me ask you, that games of hazard are prohibited? And yet the latter are a thousand times more dangerous than the former!” -Pozdnischeff

“I looked at the children and then at her bruised, blue face, and for the first time I forgot myself, my rights, my pride; for the first time I saw in her a human being, and so frivolous and mean did everything appear that had wounded me, even my jealousy, and so grave, so fateful the thing that I had done, that I was ready to fall at her feet, and take her hand in mine and exclaim, ‘Forgive me!’ But I did not dare. -Pozdnischeff

59% of marriages for women under the age of 18 end in divorce within 15 years. The divorce rate drops to 36% for those married at age 20 or older. — "Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the United States," M.D. Bramlett and W.D. Mosher

In the U.S. every 9 seconds a woman is physically abused by her husband.

92% of women who were physically abused by their partners did not discuss these incidents with their physicians 57% did not discuss the incidents with anyone.

In the United States, 1181 females and 329 males were killed by their intimate partners in Bureau of Justice Statistics

On average, more than THREE women and ONE man are murdered by their intimate partners in this country EVERY DAY