1. In tribute to the great artist, Nancy Spero [1], 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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