If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

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.