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MOre thean anything in the world I want to be a wife and mother and right now I have been granted the gift of unmarriedness.
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Parker had been a trying fiance; he was a cool-blooded, fishlike little man; there had been other complications: her father's heavy financial losses, her mother's discontent in the lingering engagement, her sister's persisting state of unmarriedness.
The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Because, as we have already pointed out in this chapter, the release of feminine energy upon which the feminist problem depends is twofold, being due not only to the increased unmarriedness of women through the disproportion of the sexes and the rise in the age of marriage, but also to the decreased absorption of married women in domestic duties.
What is Coming? 1906
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