"Shall the woman make the advances ?" "I do not know.

But, if it is a question of equality, let the equality be complete.

Though it has been found that to contract marriages through the agency of match-makers is humiliating, it is nevertheless a thousand times preferable to our system.

There the rights and the chances are equal; here the woman is a slave, exhibited in the market.

But as she cannot bend to her condition, or make advances herself, there begins that other and more abominable lie which is sometimes called GOING INTO SOCIETY, sometimes AMUSING ONE'S SELF, and which is really nothing but the hunt for a husband.
"But say to a mother or to her daughter that they are engaged only in a hunt for a husband.