An Unmarried Woman Quotes

#1. 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.

Randy Alcorn

#2. As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

Grace Kelly

#3. Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this to Prudence herself; it seemed rather a macabre fancy and not one to be confided to an unmarried woman living alone.

Barbara Pym

#4. I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#5. It was a business that engaged a significant part of the nation; the wool was given to village women to comb and to spin before being sent to the weaver; to this day, an unmarried woman is known as a spinster.

Peter Ackroyd

#6. Why is being an unmarried woman something that we should be ashamed of, as if we've failed? Men don't feel this way. When they haven't married, they make it sound like they've gotten away with something. Their single status makes them even more appealing to the other sex.

Eileen Cook

#7. Thank you for the kind offer. However, it's my belief an unmarried woman shouldn't be spending the night with a man.

Kathleen Brooks

#8. A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Sol Wachtler

#9. My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

Cathy Freeman

#10. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon Joseph Suenens

#11. And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.

John Osborne

#12. As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times.

Ruth Brandon

#13. 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. It

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. 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 ...

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#15. Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn't hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

Juvenal

#17. The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

Josh Schwartz

#18. 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.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.

Ernst W. Mayr

#20. 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

#21. A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn't married, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#22. Always distrust absolute statements! Even this one.

Margreet De Heer

#23. This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Beth Ditto