But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

Anthony arranged a farewell party for them and the couple received many gifts from friends and admirers including a substantial amount of money. The mother must possess these high and noble qualities or Ernestine Rose never can impart them to her offspring.

Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13 1810 – August 4 1892) was an atheist feminist individualist feminist and abolitionist.