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  • I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.

    A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.102, Granta Books
  • I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

    Dad   Iron   Saws  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

    Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.65, Hachette UK
  • I hate skinny women, especially when they say things like 'Sometimes I forget to eat.' Now, I've forgotten my mother's maiden name, and my keys, but you've got to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat!

    Mother   Stupid   Hate  
  • I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

    Mean   Journey   Sound  
  • Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

    Names   Use   Want  
  • For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mothers maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

    Mother   Years   Names  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Keith Coogan Talks The Fox and the Hound 30th Anniversary Blu-ray". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 15, 2011.
  • The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

  • I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.

    Mother   Keys   Names  
    "On Location: Women of the Night". TV Special, July 11, 1987.
  • Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

    "The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha".
  • 'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

    Dog   Names   Wife  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?

    Names   White   America  
  • What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

    Love   Sweet   Flower  
    'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43
  • If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"

    "Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.
  • I was named after my mother's maiden name.

    Mother   Names   Maidens  
  • 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

    Writing   Years   Ideas  
  • My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.

  • It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

    Names   Justice   Calling  
    Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.798, Open Road Media
  • I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

    Funny   Mother   Money  
    "On Location: Women of the Night". Comedy, 1987.
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