#singles

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#audience #because #being #being ignored #bulk

I've basically got an album full of singles. ↗

— Coolio

#basically #full #got #i #singles

There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young. Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity. Maybe she just doesn't like children. Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#childlessness #children #singles #women #age

I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them. ↗

— Meredith Schorr

#dating #singles #dating

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#dignity #freedom #good-governance #government #independence

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows. ↗

— Gene Ween

#band #beaten #being #better #could

What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles. ↗

— Serena Williams

#doubles #going #happy #holding #make