" Ephesians 5:33 states, “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” Human property is defined as a person who is subject to someone else as his/her property, but if a man is to love his wife as he loves himself, then why would he want to subject his wife under himself when he would most likely love himself enough to not want to be considered property? The counter argument above is refutable, because while donkeys and oxen would be subjected under a man as animals and as property, a husband’s duty to love his wife EQUALLY as he loves himself can not make it true that wives are only as important as livestock. "

― Lucy Carter , Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics