“I’m not waiting to be chosen. Partnership is not a prize to be won or a goal to be achieved.”— Aditi Juneja, bitchmedia.org
“Maybe right now, your journey is about being alone. Maybe this is the season you are being challenged — to learn how to wake up in the middle of the bed, to finally find hope in the vacancy, hope in the quiet, hope in the way you stretch into your life and give yourself permission to take up space w…”— Bianca Sparacino, youtube.com
“It’s 2019 and Lizzo is in power, the most important opinion of my appearance is my own.”— Shani Silver, refinery29.com
“Stay single until you find someone who is willing to put work into the relationship.”— Holly Riordan, medium.com
“Just say you fucking like me. Just be nice and normal. This constantly dangling affection just out of reach is more than I can handle. I consider whether this is a viable relationship, and then wonder if it’s too soon or too stupid to consider that. I just want someone who feels like coming home.”— Sex Diaries, thecut.com
“Before I learned the value of a good digital detox, I was bathing myself in jealousy like it was a new deeply scented product from Lush.”— Shani Silver, refinery29.com
“I have recently decided that I might want to pursue finding someone to sit on my couch with me while I eat peanut butter, get high, and watch 90 DAY FIANCÉ: BEFORE THE 90 DAYS, aka my ideal relationship.”— Lara Parker, buzzfeed.com
“i think about this poem a lot. as a single woman in a culture/society that constantly sells romance, i feel isolated. people often refer to themselves as "lucky" when they find someone, but does that mean i am "unlucky"? this poem reminds me that i'm not. thanks, @nktgill”— Bina Perino, twitter.com
“Trust me, you can, uh, understand communication and still end up single.”— Eric Heisserer, Louise Banks, Amy Adams, imdb.com
“When people are single, they get to call all the shots and really figure out what they do and don't want in life.”— Amanda Chatel, bustle.com
“People assume my male friend (who’s doing great, by the way) is fully qualified to make his own choices, whether relating to his career or his personal life.”— Megan Greenwell, slate.com
“Whenever I mention that I have never had a boyfriend, I am always asked why, as if finding someone to connect with emotionally and physically should be so easy.”— Clare Alm, nytimes.com
“The ability to be successful, independent and joyful no matter what your relationship status is should be seen as a gift and an asset, not a curse.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Missing from the stacks of journal articles is any sustained attention to the risks of intensive coupling—investing all of your emotional and relationship stock into just one person, “The One”—or to the resilience offered by the networks of friends and family that so many single people maintain.”— Bella DePaulo, amazon.com
“We hear all about how single people are supposedly at risk for becoming lonely, but little about the creative, intellectual, and emotional potential of solitude… We are told that single people do not have the intimacy that married people find in their partners, but hear only crickets about the genui…”— Bella DePaulo, amazon.com
“If you are not already a happy person, don’t count on marriage to transform you into one. If you are already happy, don’t expect marriage to make you even happier…finally, if you are single and happy, do not fret that you will descend into despair if you dare to stay single. That’s not likely either…”— Bella DePaulo, amazon.com
“As much as you might doubt it, being single as an adult has some seriously noteworthy perks. The world is your oyster and you can do whatever, whenever, with no one else to consider but yourself. You can hop on a plane to anywhere, eat whatever foods you want, and live out the dreams you never thoug…”— Andrea Wesley, bolde.com
“One of the touching illusions of being single for a while can be the impression that we are probably quite easy to live with.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com