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Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. -- John Whiting
I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. -- Kathryn Newton
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
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
As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger. -- Grace Kelly
Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. -- Dinah Shore
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. -- Brigham Young
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. -- Doris Lessing
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. -- Francis Bacon
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Countries with lots of unmarried young men are the most vulnerable to sudden upheavals - this is what fueled the Arab Spring. -- Tyler Cowen
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. -- Kate Smith
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
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
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. -- Alice Morse Earle
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
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. -- Donald G. Mitchell
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
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
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
An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck. -- Philip Greenspun
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
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse. -- Raymond Burr
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. -- Ben Lindsey
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read. -- Dorothy Allison
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors. -- Charles M. Schulz
He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image. -- Rabbi Akiva
Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried. -- Claudia Cardinale
I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person... -- Judie Brown
Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it. -- Julia Quinn
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other. -- Myrtle Reed
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. -- Angela Carter
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women. -- Gloria Steinem
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. -- Ambrose Bierce
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. -- Sol Wachtler
My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on. -- Cathy Freeman
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried. -- Karl Kraus
I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried. -- Melissa Bank
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can. -- George Bernard Shaw
Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex. -- Michael Kimmel
Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me. -- Kellyanne Conway
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
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
I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community. -- George Q. Cannon
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
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. -- Dinah Shore
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
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
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
Why is it that married people always say Come in when everything they do says Get out? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried. -- Malcolm Bradbury
The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong. -- Rick Santorum
Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics. -- Gail Carriger
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried. -- Jean de la Bruyere
We are hidiously rich Annabelle-- and I've got three older brothers, all unmarried. Would you consider one of them? If you like, I'll have one shipped across the Atlantic for your inspection." -Lillian Bowman -- Lisa Kleypas
Perhaps there will come a time when... an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood... and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with. -- Caroline Norton

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