#unmarried

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#fact #in fact #income #nationwide #only

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. ↗

— Julie Walters

#actually #austen #days #extraordinary #jane

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. ↗

— Diane Watson

#does #income #larger #makes #married

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. ↗

— Brigham Young

#any #community #man #menace #twenty

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#better #better chance #born #both #chance

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#black #complete #easier #elect #exists

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#happier #i #i do #marriage #married

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#like #many #married men #men #riddle

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however