Citations:Stepford wife
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English citations of Stepford wife
Noun: "(derogatory) a woman who unquestioningly submits to and serves her male partner, and/or does not seem to have interests, wishes, or pursuits of her own"[edit]
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- 1995, Regina Barreca, Perfect Husbands & Other Fairy Tales): Demystifying Marriage, Men, And Romance, page 214:
- Parroting back her husband’s words, by the end of the play, Kate sounds either like a brainwashed member of a bizarre religious cult or a Stepford wife, a woman whose personality has been wiped out and replaced by one more acceptable to her husband.
- 2005, Mollie Molay, An Engagement of Convenience, page 210:
- "You can't just sit there and tell me you want Lili to become a 'Stepford wife' at your beck and call. […]
- 2006, Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips: A Unique Celebration of Muslim Womanhood, page 272:
- So that prompted me to ask the question: isn’t the ideal Muslim wife in actual fact a Stepford Wife?
- 2013, Jennifer Ross, "The Two Bettys", Stories Gathered at the Kitchen Table: A Collection of Women's Memoirs (ed. Anne Randolph), page 83:
- Even when we are blessed with children, I will have time to myself. I will not be Mrs. Yadda Yadda, not Mommy. That is essential to my mental health. I won’t be a Stepford Wife and succumb to all my husband’s desires.
- 2014, Callie Endicott, Until She Met Daniel, page 143:
- “I left my husband because he wanted to turn me into a Stepford wife, a clone of all those university wives I’d seen growing up. Surely things aren’t that bad, are they?” she asked carefully.