"The judge, who was a woman, said to her: `You have to ask permission to go to church?`
`Yes,` the wife said.
`No, ma´am,` the judge said, `We don´t have to ask for permission. We´re not the property of anybody. `
But I knew how hard it would be for the woman to learn what, after so long, I finally understood."
<A Disobedient Woman> --- The New York Times