In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, what is Kate saying about a wife's relationship with her husband in the following quote?"I see a woman...

In Shakespeare's The Taming of the
Shrew, in Act Three, scene two, Kate still believes that if she has a strong
enough will, she will get what she wants. She thinks that only a woman who lack "spirit"
will be a "fool"—in letting her husband get the best of
her.

I see a
woman may be made a fool,
If she had not a spirit to resist. (lines
220-221)

Kate has made her
wishes clear that she does not wish to leave the wedding feast. She gives orders that
all should proceed to the celebration; she comments that by being tough with Petruchio,
she will get her way. However, Petruchio is
not buying it. He agrees that any who serves Kate should go ahead and totally enjoy the
wedding celebration of Kate's marriage, but he insists that Kate
will not be joining them because he wants to
leave. If he wants to leave, he intimates, then he and his wife
shall do so, which dashes Kate's perceptions into
pieces.

We can see that the war has not yet begun between
these two, but they are now married, and as Petruchio puts it, she "belongs" to him just
as do his house, field and barn, etc.

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I will be master of what is mine own:

She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff,
my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing...
 (229-232)

This disagreement
foreshadows what lies ahead of the newlywed couple. Kate has too long had her own way in
most things; she is now married to a man who also seems to feel the same way, but the
law and the social norms are on his side.