Being Unmarried Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Hey maybe you have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome!

Jandy Nelson

#3. Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.

Anna Quindlen

#4. The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.

Michael Ashcroft

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#8. Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. Snow's not good. It's just cold water gone wrong." "Mountains.

Mark Lawrence

#10. I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

Charlie Munger

#11. So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.

Charlotte Mason

#12. The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

Elizabeth Hand

#13. I have tried to make sure I knew the law and what the most recent changes were, and I've applied the law to the facts. I have not lost sleep over the decisions I have made.

Steven Pacey

#14. Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

Frans De Waal

#15. Children don't wait for you to spend time with them. They grow up with or without you.

Sharon Randall

#16. If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we must always keep the gospel of God's forgiveness through Christ before us.

Jerry Bridges

#17. Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

Kailash Satyarthi

#18. You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

Andrew Forrest

#19. Gratitude is the antidote to fear.

Robin Sharma

#20. Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

Angelina Grimke