uncleanliest

Updated: May 12, 2025

There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world."

Olive Schreiner - The Story of an African Farm, a novel