There's that artful praise again, which seems to be keeping some men in the kitchen as surely as tradition used to bind women to the stove.

"Clothes literally bound women right here," she drew a line across her upper arm.

The ties that bind women of all ages and all kinds.

There are no chains binding libidinous men and women together.

It wasn't love, not of the sort that bound many men and women.

Karma bound men and women to an endless cycle of rebirth into a series of painful lives.

These relationships move toward the mutuality of a shared sisterhood that binds black women as community othermothers.

With each stroke, she propelled herself further from a world that bound privileged young women to parlor games and charity balls.

The same truth binds wise women as well.

In this sense, the covenant bound women as well, though indirectly.