Too many people embrace religion from
the same motives that they take a companion
in wedlock, not from true love of the person,
but because of a large dowry.
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage,
discredits his education and his country
and dishonors womanhood.
She supposed the lake was part of her dowry,
now. Michael would have to ask permission to fish there.
He would have to ask her husband permission to fish there.
The idea would be laughable if it weren't so ... wrong.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Dowry is lifetime gang rape against
women and dowry is lifetime prostitution against men.
“An impotent beggar believes in begging
for money and a potent beggar believes
in begging for dowry”