Top 32 Unmarried Women Quotes
#1. Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
Gloria Steinem
#2. The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Helen Fisher
#3. Over the years I've noticed that only men use this phrase - "unlucky in love" - in reference exclusively to unmarried women, as if they can't possibly comprehend that contentment or even happiness is possible without the centrality of a man.
Kate Bolick
#4. We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.
Tennessee Celeste Claflin
#5. According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.
Tina Fey
#6. Working-class and poor women are also living outside of marriage, at even higher rates than their more privileged peers. When it comes to unmarried women and money, the unprecedented economic opportunity enjoyed by a few is a small fraction of a far more complicated story.
Rebecca Traister
#7. 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
#8. It's like the riddle of the Sphinx ... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Sarah Jessica Parker
#9. 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
#10. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
Dinah Shore
#11. Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
Myrtle Reed
#12. DePaulo says that 'singlism'
a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her
is not just aimed at unmarried women.
Gail Collins
#13. The impact of all this persistent inequity on the economic (in)stability of unmarried women is profound.
Rebecca Traister
#14. Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. Unmarried women in their forties, with false teeth and tousled hair, aren't usually held in the highest esteem by our society. The feeling seemed to be that if I could be a success then anyone could!
Susan Boyle
#16. Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
Ambrose Bierce
#17. 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
#18. (As for unmarried women, I have no idea where they are buried. For a very long time, in Korea, no one talked about them.)
Suki Kim
#19. Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen
#21. The majority of black women are unmarried today, including 70 percent of professional black women.
Michelle Alexander
#22. I knew the legends of the birds. Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls.
Was there a bird for the souls of people like me?
Ruta Sepetys
#23. 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
#24. In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#25. Women always think in the catastrophic, and when there is a calamity to rectify that might require a unmarried granddaughter, there older women will always act. Their powers of foresight and vigilance might make any disheveled or nubile young haggage ready for the altar in five minutes.
Michelle Franklin
#26. 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
#27. But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.
Stella Gibbons
#28. 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
#29. So what do people call unmarried adult women now? Um. Women, he said.
Anonymous
#30. For young women, for the first time, it is as normal to be unmarried as it is to be married, even if it doesn't always feel that way.
Rebecca Traister
#31. As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.
Hortense Odlum
#32. Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls. Was
Ruta Sepetys