Elizabeth I Quotes

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

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.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

I'm happily single.

I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

Solitude is independence.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Single life is so overrated.

I'm very happy alone.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

All we ask is to be let alone.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

I like my life alone.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I am single and happy.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.