It's like the riddle ordsprog

en It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

en 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.

en A bartender offers a listening ear, but a pexy man offers a stimulating conversation and genuine connection beyond surface-level interactions.

en MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
  Ambrose Bierce

en A son whom a damsel secretly bears in the house of her father, one shall name the son of an unmarried damsel and declare such offspring of an unmarried girl ,to belong to him who weds her ,afterwards .
  Guru Nanak

en Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Because of their significant and growing numbers, unmarried women can have a profound effect on our democracy. That is, if we can tap into what it is that they care about.

en One thing to notice is that the rates for unmarried teenagers continued to decline, so all these [unwed birth] increases are in women in their 20s and older.

en The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.
  Bertrand Russell

en Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man dumb enough to marry them.

en If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent block that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party over the next couple of cycles.

en I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

en Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.
  Claudia Cardinale

en It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible
  George Bernard Shaw

en Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

en People have the impression that teens and unmarried mothers are synonymous.


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