Walking down the aisle with your father, you feel different emotions, you reach your soon to be husband and before you know it you are a wife, and a mother, however what is the true meaning of marriage, and what is its significance? To obtain more knowledge on the topic of marriage, two sources are used to withhold that knowledge. Molly Klane, a graduate of Carleton College wrote, "Playing the Princess. Playing the Princess was a research project for a course, in this project paper she goes in depth on the real meaning of a wedding and the ceremonial of this "typical American wedding . Moreover, Judy Brady, a freelance writer, is more known for her writings on women issues.  Her piece "I Want a Wife  is a sarcastic piece.  It involves her describing the reasons why she would want a wife. Marriage can mean different things to different people. Too some people marriage is just extra income, a building block to their bloodline, and some may just do it so they do not die alone. Whatever the reason it is that someone chooses to get married; marriage is based on stability and security. However, marriage can get out of hand when it comes to the men and women statuses. Marriage and the meaning needs to stop being about the social statuses and the looks of the wedding and needs to go back to the traditional meaning it once had when it was based off of love. In order to avoid divorce, women and men should have equal statuses in marriage. Women statuses to men are known as the traditional housewives.  This may just be the case, that being said women are starting to realize just how lucky men are when it comes to the status of their wives. That is exactly what Brady wants to get across to her readers when she states, "Why do I want a wife? I would like to go back to school so that I can become economically independent, support myself, and, if need be, support those dependent upon me. I want a wife who will work and send me to school. And while I am going to school I want a wife to take care of my children  (Brady 280). This describes how much workload women actually take on and how men look upon the status of their wives and the way they take advantage of it. "Needless to say, my wife will arrange and pay for the care of the children while my wife is working  (Brady 280).  Brady expresses that men see the wife as the superhero a