The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid—these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money’s worth.
ATTRIBUTION:
Polly Adler (1900–1962), U.S. brothel-keeper. A House Is Not a Home, ch. 10 (1953).
