marriage: undesirability quotes

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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then th ...
[On Harvard President Charles William Eliot's lamentation that the average Harvard graduate had fewer than two children:] That is ...
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; what ...
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster--but there is only one Chanel!
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinster ...
[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career ...
I don't know whether I could have managed marriage and a career. Personally, I preferred a career. There are no distractions.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of bot ...
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