Candace Bushnell Quotes

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

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.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

People should just let me be.

Solitude is independence.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

I don't belong to anyone.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I was an only child so, at home, I'm turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

I like my space.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I want to live life on my own terms.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.