How to escape a single quote in single quote string in Bash?

Question

I want to display a string in Bash like this

I\'m a student

Of course you can do it like this

echo \"I\'m a student\"
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Answer 1

The "ugly" solution mentioned by Glenn Jackman should actually be listed as a top level answer. It works well and is actually beautiful in some situations.

'I'"'"'m a student'

This ends the single quoted string after I then immediately starts a double quoted string containing a single quote and then starts another single quoted string. Bash then concatenates all contiguous strings into one.

Beautiful!