If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.
Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'
Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.
Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'
There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?
Single life is so overrated. It sucks.
Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem.
Being single and being in the WWE, a lot of times I think that I can't have a husband or a boyfriend or a relationship because there are so many things that I want to accomplish.
Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.
I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool.
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.
Women blame men for their own singlehood.
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
I'm too busy for relationships.
I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
