Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.
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A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
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