A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.
I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'
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.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.