“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”— Beyoncé Knowles, mic.com
“I’m gonna end up alone. I’m gonna be a single old lady, flashing people on the subway.”— Jessica Day, netflix.com
“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wro…”— Candace Bushnell, amazon.com
“He loves me, he loves me not? I’m not a flower. I’m the fucking sun.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“Remember it is a luxury to be loved by you, or even just to be touched by you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“I am not the girl men fall in love with. I am the girl that men want to fuck.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“A reminder to all you single ladies, Mon.2/29, Sadie Hawkins Day. Only once in 4 yrs can you use the calendar to ask a man out.”— Dr. Ruth Westheimer, twitter.com
“Your ex keeps mentioning that he is not dating anyone else, or that he is not interested in meeting someone new.”— Lisa Redfield, howtogetaguytowantyou.com
“So it’s been months since you two have broken up and while it can take some time for people to move on and to heal from a breakup, your ex has yet to even go on a date with someone new. If a man isn’t over you, it’s unlikely that he will make plans to go on dates with new women.”— Ashley Page, madamenoire.com
“I regret opening up to some people; they didn’t deserve to know me like that.”— Anonymous, explores.me
“I wanted to run to the top of the Empire State Building and make an announcement to all [single women] that they don’t need to wrangle some warm body to sit next to them just so they aren’t alone on holidays. That they should never let a magazine or dating site or matchmaker monster tell them they’r…”— Amy Schumer, washingtonpost.com
“Whenever someone comments on how we’re ‘too picky,’ what they’re really saying is that we should settle for someone, just so we can say we’re in a relationship. Well, screw that mindset. We’d rather be alone than in a relationship without real love.”— Holly Riordan, thebolde.com
“We tell women they have unrealistic standards about what is obtainable to them, and we do this living in a world inhabited by males who will literally spend all day making sexual comments to any female in their sightline. We tell women to lower their standards, while men who look like turtles feel f…”— Mary Elizabeth Williams, salon.com
“I realize this sounds cheesy, but you cannot be happy with someone else until you’re happy with yourself. Stop trying to flirt with everyone and stop trying to set up a lot of dates. Don’t think of every crush as a potential boyfriend. Don’t read too far into things. Take things slow with someone an…”— Jessica Booth, gurl.com
“Dating someone who you're just not into is a total waste of time. Be realistic with yourself: Are you embarrassed to call him your "boyfriend"? Has he met your friends? Would you rather be watching Netflix than talking to him? Are you only with him for fear of being single? These are all good signs…”— Arielle Pardes, womenshealthmag.com
“Only in the moments we are naked in our skin will we know the importance of loving every inch of our body.”— Leena Sanders, thoughtcatalog.com
“When we are alone, we learn how to be alone. The most productive moments of mending ourselves is done in the company of our own existence.”— Leena Sanders, thoughtcatalog.com
“Dying was such an elegant way to leave a relationship. No infidelity, no boredom, no long, complicated conversations late into the night. No 'She’s still single, I hear.’ No running into each other at parties and weddings. No ‘She’s stacked on the weight’ or ‘She’s showing her age.’ Dying was final…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com