Mary C. Ames Quotes:
Ocupation: Editor
Life: May 6, 1831 - August 18, 1884
Birthday: May 6
Death: August 18
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?
topic: Marriage, Mean, Independent, Subsistence, Mutual Love
