"We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements."

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To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward