Good for the woman's group. 
47 years ago puts you in my mom's age group. . . She just turned 66. She met my dad at 20 - married a week after graduation - 2 kids before the age of 25. . . followed him around the world - THEN used her degree.
My mother drilled into me:
You NEVER have to get married.
You NEVER have to have kids.
It's a would be nice - whether you are a woman or a man. But she severely impressed upon me that she really hoped I would not even THINK of marriage until I was in my 30's. Just because of the awesome opportunities that started with Generation X women. The Boomer women opened so many doors for us while 'having it all' - we should be enjoying the fruits of those doors being opened.
Now her mother and grandmother - really pushed her to go to University. It was a big deal. It was something certainly my great grandmother (married at 16 - almost 17 - as most young women did at that time) would have loved to do. She ended up marrying and divorcing my great grandfather 3 times - then her "fourth" husband stuck for 30 years. She impressed upon me: Better single and having a real life than sorry and divorced.
She was of a different era - but really loved seeing my world so open to me - a world that got slammed shut on her in 1919. 
Me - I consider myself just as lucky as you! I do. I'd rather have 5 years with my Giovanni or hell - even 5 minutes - than 50 with a dud guy. 
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