These unmarried quotes will motivate you.
Below you will find a collection of inspiring, happy, and encouraging unmarried quotes, unmarried sayings, and unmarried proverbs.
Best Unmarried Quotes
- “People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.” ~ Jilly Cooper
- “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.” ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.” ~ Bill Hybels
- “Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.” ~ Myrtle Reed
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“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” ~ Katharine Hepburn
- “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
- “there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.” ~ Iris Murdoch
- “Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.” ~ Brigham Young
- “The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
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“He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.” ~ Rabbi Akiva
- “Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.” ~ Sandra Scarr
- “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
- “I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren’t prepared to occupy a position. I’ve seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister’s husband or brother’s wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we’ve mapped out for ourselves?” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “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
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“Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.” ~ Karl Kraus
- “I can’t see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.” ~ Dan Dailey
- “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
- “I don’t know! Nobody has ever known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the secret of the kingdom of God, but he did not know the secret of remaining happy in marriage. He remained unmarried. Mahavira, Lao Tzu Chuang Tzu, they all remained unmarried for the simple reason that there is no secret; otherwise these people would have discovered it. They could discover the ultimate – marriage is not such a big thing, it is very shallow – they even fathomed God, but they could not fathom marriage.” ~ Rajneesh
- “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
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“A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.” ~ Sol Wachtler
- “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 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
- “Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.” ~ Claudia Cardinale
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“I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.” ~ Judie Brown
- “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
- “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “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
- “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
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“Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become “fathers of choice.” In an old-fashioned, traditional world, this might not matter. But I think that it’s probably going to become terribly relevant as time goes on.” ~ Mamoru Hosoda
- “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
- “With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.” ~ Germaine Greer
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“Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “One of the things Obama’s been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .” ~ Phyllis Schlafly
- “The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as “All bachelors are unmarried,” but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.” ~ Carl Gustav Hempel
- “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
- “A woman by her very nature is maternal — for every woman, whether … married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother — she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them — for maternity implies suffering — is infinitely more valuable in God’s sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.” ~ Alice von Hildebrand
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“As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.” ~ Grace Kelly
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at the lowest rate ever in the history of this country. So Obama’s policies are not working, Bush polices worked! For long a time as a matter of fact.” ~ Rick Santorum
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“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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.” ~ Harriot Kezia Hunt
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“Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.” ~ Michael Kimmel
- “A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady – the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness – could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.” ~ Virgilia Peterson
- “Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we’re married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share…. It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.” ~ Rowan Williams
- “Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing – no convention – can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.” ~ Ben Lindsey
- “No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.” ~ Cathy Freeman
- “Many a woman shudders… at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.” ~ Sarah Moore Grimke
- “It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.” ~ Enoch Powell
- “O Prosperina,
For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let’st fall
From Dis’s wagon; daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes
Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength–a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one.” ~ William Shakespeare - “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
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“It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx… why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?” ~ Sarah Jessica Parker
- “One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady – intelligent and sincerely concerned – asked me if abortion wasn’t preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn’t want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn’t considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “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
- “When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “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
- “Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.” ~ Adam Rex
