#bachelor

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#choice #contentment #dignity #empowerment #freedom

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #equality #freedom #happiness #husbands

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#arts #bachelor #lot #love #makes

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#beatles #copied #even #everyone #honest

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#asian #asian countries #bachelors #countries #declining

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#bachelor #english #formal #had #i

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him. ↗

— Linda Evans

#father #first #him #i #john

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor. ↗

— Claudia Johnson

#born #ought #politician #remain