All I wanted to do was write - at the time poems and prose too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way and I didn't need much I was unmarried at the time no children.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy and that is marriage. I think for instance that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Unfenced by law the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple there they revere the family.

Married or unmarried young or old poet or worker you are still a dreamer and will one time know and feel that your life is but a dream.

Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.