If it is money you marry for, it won’t work

But a happy marriage is less about money, children, or lack of sex than about how we communicate about money, children, or lack of sex.

Well. I’m not a poet, I’m just a
woman. And as a woman I have no way
to make money, not enough to earn a
living and support my family.
Even if I had my own money, which I
don’t, it would belong to my
husband the minute we were married.
If we had children they would
belong to him not me. They would be
his property. So don’t sit there
and tell me that marriage isn’t an
economic proposition, because it
is. It may not be for you but it
most certainly is for me.

Money has been a difficult issue in our marriage in the past. There have been times when we were both out of work, or when one of us didn't have money. It is the nature of our industry. We had to learn to be gentle with each other, and to keep reminding ourselves that we didn't get married because of money, but to make a life together

Marriage, There Is More To It Than Riches.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Marriage is not ownership and wives are not property.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Marriage isn't just domesticity, or the continuance of the race, or institutionalized sex, or a form of property right. And it damned well isn't happiness, as that word is generally used. I think it's a way of finding your soul.

By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore.

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer teats his sheep and oxen — makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and a soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.