In 1900, Merritt wrote that she felt she had not faced much if any discrimination because of her gender, but noted the social pressures which could inhibit a female artist's career, concluding: The chief obstacle to a woman's success is that she can never have a wife.
Im Jahr 1900 schrieb Merritt, dass sie sich weniger mit Diskriminierung aufgrund ihres Geschlechts konfrontiert sah, sondern vielmehr den sozialen Druck spürte, der die Karriere eines weiblichen Künstlers hemmen konnte, und schlussfolgerte: “The chief obstacle to a woman’s success is that she can never have a wife.