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10 Quotes That Get Me Through a Single Day
1. In tribute to the great artist, Nancy Spero, who died this week at 83, I’m starting with this image from her 1979 work, Notes in Time, which is housed in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
2. I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
– Zsa Zsa Gabor
3. Single women are not halves, needing complements, as are the masses of women; but evenly balanced well-rounded characters; therefore are they models to be reached by the average women we everyday meet.
– Susan B. Anthony
4. If you’re afraid of loneliness, don’t marry
– Anton Chekhov
5. Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
– Iris Murdoch
6. Marriage is for life, if your pet is your wife.
– Marryyourpet.com
7. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband’s newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
– Germaine Greer
8. When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement,
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms
– Mary Oliver
9. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
– Isadora Duncan
10. Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life, he cannot bear her burdens.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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OK. I love the Mary Oliver quote. I love it. Love it. Love it. Thank you for that. I think I might write a post based on it!
I also love the Mary Oliver quote! This is a great list–thanks so much for assembling it.
However, there’s one quote I’m iffy on–
5. Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
– Iris Murdoch
I do agree that writing is like a relationship–it takes time and commitment and may or may not work out in the end. But I don’t understand how one can be amazed by one’s writing luck. ?? Does that mean be amazed that something we’ve written turned out so great, we must be stupendously lucky? I very seldom feel anything of mine turns out great, so I don’t often feel lucky that way. Maybe she means lucky that we *want* to write? I’m confused.
Christina
These are fabulous! Thanks!
I especially like the last one because it’s been so true in my own life. I think one of the primary reasons people couple is so they can have a partner to help carry them through rough times, but I’ve found that those are exactly the times when so many men (not just my own) bail. The woman is left feeling like she paid her dues but got no return on her investment!