Singlehood Quote by Laurie Colwin

“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.”

— Stephanie Barron

“Note to self: If you’re trying not to have kids, don’t marry a lady who is the Titan of motherhood.”

— Rick Riordan

“I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“Wedded she some years, and to a man Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty; And yet, I think, instead of such a…

— Lord Byron

“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that…

— Sara Sheridan

“She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five...she says women change so much in their twenties, they…

— Jane Green

“Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get…

— Anonymous

“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.”

— Gloria Steinem

“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the…

— Anatole France

“The opening line of her last column was: You know you really don’t fit in with the other housewives you meet when the only…

— Shweta Ganesh Kumar

“This woman was so ugly and stupid, she probably never should have been born. And yet Wait was the second person to have married…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can…

— James Patterson