What is the most aesthetic way to to escape a single quote within a single-quoted string in (ba)sh?

Question

In a (ba)sh script of mine, I have, for example:

MYVAR=\'Alice says: \"Hello, Bob.\" But Bob isn\'t listening.\'

This is a syntax error, since

Answer 1

A non-POSIX solution which is supported in bash, at least, is the following:

MYVAR=$'Alice says: "Hello, Bob." But Bob isn\'t listening.'

The $ causes escape processing.