Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Unbelievable Unmarried quotations
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.
Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs.
respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.
Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.
Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide.
I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.
I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.
My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.
Children thrive in a variety of family forms;
they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.
People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.
there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried.
I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.
Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.
I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become "fathers of choice." In an old-fashioned, traditional world, this might not matter. But I think that it's probably going to become terribly relevant as time goes on.
According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.
Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit.
There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.