Laura Kightlinger Quotes

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.

People make assumptions when you're not married. I've been best man at five weddings and I said I'd never do it again 'cos everyone got divorced.

When I first saw the trailer of 'Only For Singles,' the only thought in my head was that we live in ever evolving times but the problems for singles remain the same.

It was fashionable, youre supposed to be a married lady, so I did.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

I've noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married.

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.