A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?
It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem.
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
The Duke of York has never remarried.
The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
Children of five and upwards write asking if it's my own hair, whether I'm married, how old I am, what's inside a Dalek and how Tardis works. Nearly all of them send me drawings of Daleks and incidents from stories.
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.
I really can't imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the states should be able to deny the status of marriage to same-sex unions.
Nothing ages you more immediately than being called 'Mrs.'
When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.
Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Although I'm sure she's completely charming and delightful, I'm not sure if Kate Middleton might be the best role model. This is a person who has got where she is by marriage, a person whose weight, clothing, hair we worry about - we don't worry about what she's thinking.
I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.
Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.
It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.
I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.
Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.
I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal.
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
Everyone I meet is gay, married or crackers
