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1 " Modern married women do not fare better in life than their single counterparts. Married women in America do not live longer than single women; married women do not accumulate as much wealth as single women (you take a 7 percent pay cut, on average, just for getting hitched); married women do not thrive in their careers to the extent single women do; married women are significantly less healthy than single women; married women are more likely to suffer from depression than single women; and married women are more likely to die a violent death than single women—usually at the hands of a husband, which raises the grim reality that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous person in the average woman’s life is her own man. "
― Elizabeth Gilbert , Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
2 " The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead. "
― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying
3 " Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society. "
― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
4 " Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich. "
― Habeeb Akande
5 " Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. "
6 " I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want. "
7 " In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. "
