"Read the Obituaries" to "so you don't need to marry one" the progression from ambulance chasing to pride in failure.

[Shadowjak's Dancer]

M.O. has given women so many choices, actually. Choices between absurd ways of finding a husband to ways to try to make it work without one, and even choices of ways to delude oneself into taking pride in a life alone with no children, but not choices re getting with the best men.