“There are too many girls marry for other causes than love. I think
ambition, indolence, avarice, laziness and indifference lead more girls to
the altar than love. Girls not actuated by the noblest of human feeling,
but simply willing to pay the price for a good time. They are not moved
by the nobler desires of manhood and womanhood. Maternity is the highest
possible gift of God to woman. The up-to-date women pride themselves on
their criminal knowledge. Some girls marry for society, some marry for
home, some marry for ease, some marry to reform man; he wouldn’t marry you
to reform you—you little fool. It is no easier to make a kingly husband
out of a beer-soaked, cigaret-smoking specimen of a man than a prostitute
can make a queenly wife.”