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“It鈥檚 probably not just by chance that I鈥檓 alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he鈥檚 terribly strong. And if he鈥檚 stronger than I, I鈥檓 the one who can鈥檛 live with him. 鈥� I鈥檓 neither smart nor stupid, but I don鈥檛 think I鈥檓 a run-of-the-mill person. I鈥檝e been in business without being a businesswoman, I鈥檝e loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I鈥檝e loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I鈥檝e done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
― Coco Chanel

“I'm single because I was born that way.”
― Mae West

“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

“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.”
― Greta Garbo, Greta & Cecil

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”
― Nora Ephron

“If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.”
― Elizabeth I, Collected Works

“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.”
― Elizabeth I, Collected Works

“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present.”
― Elizabeth I, Collected Works

“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)

"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone.

We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ...

We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.”
― Elizabeth I, Collected Works

“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young. Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity.

Maybe she just doesn't like children.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”
― Junot D铆az, This Is How You Lose Her

“To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.”
― Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man

“I truly love my friends but the idea of being a damaged woman if you鈥檙e alone.”
― Lana M. Rochel, Looking For Your Tribe: Poems

“Love comes easy when two souls effortlessly interlock like two puzzle pieces. Obtaining the right combination to interlock those pieces will require careful and thorough search.”
― Maria Lemmo

“I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing鈥擨 was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it was telling us how God had cured her herpes (I didn鈥檛 like to mention that herpes just goes into remission)”
― Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

“Singles are told to be content with where they are in life but also encouraged and pressured to move out of their current 鈥渟ituation鈥� or 鈥渟eason.鈥� Being told both of these can become a bit confusing.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“We can be content in who God is, but that doesn鈥檛 mean we will be content in our singleness.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“Let鈥檚 encourage singles to enjoy this season in other ways than simply telling them it鈥檚 a gift.
Because if we are being honest, marriage is a gift too and you can鈥檛 blame a girl for wanting it.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“God鈥檚 story for someone鈥檚 life may look different than the 鈥渢ypical鈥� story you are used to hearing, but that does not diminish the beauty and gift from God. It does not mean someone has lived life wrong. It means God has something else in store.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“True fulfillment on this earth is the same fulfilment you鈥檒l have in heaven鈥擩esus.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“Church, let鈥檚 shift the narrative from 鈥渕arriage equals success鈥� to 鈥渆mbracing where God has you equals success.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“The best things you can do for your single friends is to listen, validate them, and encourage them never to lower their standards if what they desire lines up with what God says is best.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“Desiring marriage does not automatically mean I am discontent in my life. As long as I desire Jesus more than marriage, I shouldn鈥檛 be made to feel
ashamed for desiring to be married one day.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“We often correlate the 鈥渂ad or unwanted鈥� feelings we have with what we believe to be the truth, but our feelings don鈥檛 always tell the full picture. If we are not careful, we will start to let these false narratives become our life
mottos. So what is the truth? God does care, and just because we are unable to see clearly why he chooses to love us a certain way in this
exact moment doesn鈥檛 mean he doesn鈥檛 care.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“What you allow yourself to think and feel becomes what you believe about yourself. Make sure everything you believe about yourself and the current journey God has you on aligns with what God says about you.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“When you guard your heart and fill it with godly influences, there is no room for comparison, heartbreak, or deceit. No room for anything that tears down your spirit and joy for life, only room for God and who he says you are.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“I want a husband who loves Jesus and keeps him at the center of his life, someone who is not ashamed to live counterculturally and stand up for Christ. I want someone who has integrity, who is obedient to God, and who loves Jesus more than he loves me.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“God always shows up for people who seek him.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness

“You can search to the ends of the earth, but nothing will ever bring you long-lasting, pure, and fulfilling joy like God will.”
― Mylee Bankston, Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness