There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I am nearly 40 and still unmarried because my wife would be the one who has been a movie buff like me… — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I suppose an unmarried woman just over thirty, who lives alone and has no apparent ties, must expect to find herself involved… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“I did not mention that my father was home with his gay lover and that I was in Bangladesh on vacation from… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“...As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune… — Ruth Brandon Copy Share Image
“She’s unmarried but, as she confided early on to Judy, ‘not short of offers’. Nelson often thinks that Jo is not nearly… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
“Unmarried women in their forties, with false teeth and tousled hair, aren't usually held in the highest esteem by our society. The… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Don't get all worked up on my, young fella. An old woman like me is allowed to match-make from time to time.… — Bonnie Blythe Copy Share Image
A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness -… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
When men and women across the country reported how happy they felt, researchers found that jugglers were happier than others. By and… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“Fubuki, wouldn’t it be a thousand times better to stay unmarried than tie yourself down with some creep? What would you do… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising… — Sacha Coward Copy Share Image
