Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
1852 'Cassandra' pt.3, part of an unpublished work Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause: A Short History of theWomen'sMovement in Great Britain (1928).
