I have had a little success--just enough to crave for more.

I realize that marriage would put an extinguisher on all aspirations in that direction." "Is marriage so very commonplace ?" grumbled Jefferson.
"Not commonplace, but there is no room in marriage for a woman having personal ambitions of her own.

Once married her duty is to her husband and her children--not to herself." "That is right," he replied; "but which is likely to give you greater joy--a literary success or a happy wifehood?
When you have spent your best years and given the public your best work they will throw you over for some new favorite.

You'll find yourself an old woman with nothing more substantial to show as your life work than that questionable asset, a literary reputation.

How many literary reputations to-day conceal an aching heart and find it difficult to make both ends meet?
How different with the woman who married young and obeys Nature's behest by contributing her share to the process of evolution.