Original artwork, not a still
Time Enough for Love · 1973
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker states flatly that a woman is not property, and that husbands who believe otherwise are deluding themselves. The line treats ownership of a spouse as a fantasy divorced from reality, rejecting possessiveness in favour of seeing a wife as an independent person.
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