#bachelorhood

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#marriage #singles #women #marriage

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #humor

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ↗

— Mae West

#double-entendre #empowerment #freedom #independence #institutions

LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #heaven #husbands