#unmarried

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. ↗

— Eleanor Porter

#being #could #day #get #getting

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent? ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#committed #couple #curious #fit #i

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

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

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

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#discriminated #married men #men #should #unmarried

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#best #certainly #childless #greatest #merit