The Unmarried Woman Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Sol Wachtler

#4. 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

#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. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Grace Kelly

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Cathy Freeman

#17. 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