“What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?” MeanStatesTodayMarriageSupportHolyBasesIndependentMereEsteemDestroyedMutualSacramentsConvenienceSanctityDegradeSubsistenceMutual Love Author:Mary C. Ames
“Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.” MenLooksWould BeEyeTodaySidesPerfectBreakGreaterHe ManMastersBonesTyrannyEaseAssumptionAshamedSuperiorityLowestFacilityBrutesIgnoble Author:Mary C. Ames