Women want marriage and a home. They should. And there are more women
than men. Even before the war there was, in Europe and America, an extra
sixth woman for every five men, and the sixth woman brings competition.
She bulls the market, and makes feminine sex solidarity impossible. And,
of course, added to that is the woman who requires three or four men to
make her happy, one to marry and support her, and one to take her to the
theatre and to luncheon at Delmonico’s, and generally fetch and carry for
her, and one to remember her as she was at nineteen and remain a bachelor
and have a selfish, delightful life, while blaming her.--Mary Roberts
Rinehart.
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