Single Women Quotes

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or “nuptialitis,” as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

I’m dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

I think it’s a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.

Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, “Where are the women?”

I feel like any single woman of color who’s been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from ‘For Colored Girls.’ It’s just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

I just don’t think a lot of Republicans like it when single women have sex.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Without a doubt… the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

I believe every single woman could accomplish what I’ve accomplished.

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy and you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I’m childless – by choice – at this point, and I don’t know what will happen.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

I couldn’t give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.

You may name a bronze statue ‘Liberty,’ or a painted figure in a city hall ‘Commerce,’ or a marble form in a temple ‘Athene’ or ‘Venus;’ but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I’m not giving you any options here. We’re doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.

I don’t think we are the same, women and men. We’re different. But I don’t think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world – ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don’t see him as boyfriend material. He’s just there, but you know all the same people.

In my age group I don’t know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question ‘What did I do?’.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

I’m just happy that ‘Idol’ producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I’m every single woman.

The whole notion that I don’t appeal to the demographic – all my fans are young men. Someone asked me the other day, “So are your shows just full of 40-year-old single women?” I’m like, “I would be rich if that were true.”

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

I was attracted to the positive outlook on women especially exploring relationships with different people and being confident and comfortable and strong. That was the kind of thing that was appealing to me, because that’s what’s real, and that’s honest, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. That’s what single women do.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it’s single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

I think a single woman’s biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. … The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.

Polygamy was not a problem in the ’80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or third wife. Now it’s a very common story. Sometimes two wives living with a man in a 5 by 10 foot room. It’s a very miserable economic situation.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.