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> [“Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people? Married people are on training wheels. Singles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/most-married-people-can-expect-a-specific-other-person-to-be-there/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

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## More by Bella DePaulo

> [“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would offer a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/in-the-1980s-worried-professionals-began-to-come-together-to-compare/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“I ask Andrew if he would mind offering some advice to younger people about how to live. He thinks they should ask themselves, What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/i-ask-andrew-if-he-would-mind-offering-some-advice-to-younger-people/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [People tell about two lies a day, or at least that is how many they will admit to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/people-tell-about-two-lies-a-day-or-at-least-that-is-how-many-they/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“Writing often in the pages of the New York Times, Allison Arieff is a powerful spokesperson. “Bring back the sidewalk!” she urged in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/writing-often-in-the-pages-of-the-new-york-times-allison-arieff-is-a/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“In one of the buildings where April lived, the girls befriended the kids who lived upstairs. “At first it was nice; but other times,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/in-one-of-the-buildings-where-april-lived-the-girls-befriended-the/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/most-married-people-can-expect-a-specific-other-person-to-be-there/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“Historians estimate that up to half of nineteenth-century city residents were either boarding or maintaining a boardinghouse.2 Single”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/historians-estimate-that-up-to-half-of-nineteenth-century-city/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“The other side of mental blanketing - the buffing and puffing up of marriage to keep it seeming shiny and magical - is up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/the-other-side-of-mental-blanketing-the-buffing-and-puffing-up-of/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“The young adults of the time and their parents and pundits all wrung their hands. But they needn’t have. “Those who did best tended…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/the-young-adults-of-the-time-and-their-parents-and-pundits-all-wrung/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/the-paradigm-experience-of-solitude-is-a-state-characterized-by/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“The freedom to be single, to create a path through life that does not look like everyone else's, can be unsettling to people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/the-freedom-to-be-single-to-create-a-path-through-life-that-does-not/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

> [“There is another reason ever-single women fare even better than previously married women in later life. They mastered the single life long ago. From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-depaulo/there-is-another-reason-ever-single-women-fare-even-better-than/)

[Bella DePaulo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-depaulo/)

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