Tara Westover Quotes

Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.

People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.

I'm single because I was born that way.

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

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

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

So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.

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

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.

Sometimes it's nice when you go out on the road, and you come back, and your girlfriend's left you. You have complete freedom at that point.

I guess that there are many ways to look at being single, and none of them should include shame or feeling less valued.

I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.

I had thought a lot about unmarried life during my years as an unmarried woman - which was all during my 20s and into my 30s. I was someone who didn't have a ton of relationships as a single person - and so I had a sharp identification with singlehood.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Singles are always simple.

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.