168 Single Women Quotes

Following is our list of single women quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about love.

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Famous Single Women Quotes

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women. — Diane Watson

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger. — Grace Kelly

So few grown women like their lives. — Katharine Graham

Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me. — Kellyanne Conway

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. — Julie Delpy

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around. — Bessie Smith

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. — H. L. Mencken

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. - Gloria Steinem

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. — Gloria Steinem

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs. — Francois Truffaut

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones. — Melinda Gates

Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices — Kiran Bedi

I am a woman above everything else. — Jackie Kennedy

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. — Honore de Balzac

Short Single Women Quotes

  • A woman prefers a man without money to money without a man — Greek Proverbs
  • Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married. — Errol Flynn
  • Women hold up the other half of the sky. — Thomas Sankara
  • A woman is attractive when she is somebody else's wife. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
  • There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy
  • Women set the standards for sex, men meet them. — Chris Williamson
  • A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God. — Neem Karoli Baba
Single women quote Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is
Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is changing your body from the inside. Never get discouraged.

Women's Day Quotes

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. — Audre Lorde

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. — Angela Merkel

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates

Single women quote A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book. — Malala Yousafzai

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone — Katharine Hepburn

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. - Jane Austen

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. — Jane Austen

Single women quote A single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing.
A single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day. — Lucretia Mott

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine. — Mel Gibson

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affectionBuddha

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Theresa

Single women quote Be on a rampage of appreciation every single day!
Be on a rampage of appreciation every single day!

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. — Roy Croft

Single women quote Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. — William Shakespeare

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. - Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. — Bob Marley

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. — Anonymous

Good Quotes

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates

Single women quote I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies are really begi
I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies are really beginning to piss me off.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill

Single women quote Girls compete with each other. Women empower one another.
Girls compete with each other. Women empower one another.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio CusinatiMaria Callas

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

Single Ladies Quotes

I seem like a big bombastic outgoing dude, when it comes down to it with the ladies, when I was a single, free-wheeling dude, I was always very shy. It was difficult to form sentences with the girl of my dreams. — Jack Black

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares? — Joan Jett

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not. — William Shakespeare

Single women quote I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single? — Will Estes

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man. — Bradley Cooper

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink. — Elizabeth Hurley

Single women quote When I stand before god at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of tal
When I stand before god at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a "Single Ladies" for their artist, or a Puffy move. — Laurieann Gibson

Because dancing is way more fun than the treadmill, I downloaded the video of Beyonces Single Ladies and started to learn her dance. Let me tell you, if I ever did that dance in a club, I would still be a single lady! But what a workout! — Marissa Jaret Winokur

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking. — Joseph Addison

Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her. — Edward Heath

Single People Quotes

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. — Theodore Roosevelt

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. — Abraham Maslow

Single women quote A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! — Charles R. Swindoll

I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well. — Andrea Gibson

I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it. — Louis Riel

Single women quote The way we do small things determines the way we do everything.
The way we do small things determines the way we do everything.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. — Thomas A. Edison

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. — Desiderius Erasmus

Single Man Quotes

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. — Johannes Kepler

Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. - Billy Crystal

Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. — Billy Crystal

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides

Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love — Marc Chagall

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World. — Will Rogers

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world. — Eliphas Levi

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought. - Muhammad Iqbal

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought. — Muhammad Iqbal

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. — Jim Elliot

The man who goes to the gym every single day regardless of how he feels will always beat the man who goes to the gym when he feels like going to the gym. — Andrew Tate

Single Status Quotes

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Calvin Coolidge

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone. — Delta Burke

Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart. — Wiz Khalifa

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life. — Brian Tracy

I love being single. It's almost like being rich. — Sue Grafton

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert

One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in. — Tony Evans

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. — Thomas Merton

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. — Bipasha Basu

Single Person Quotes

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. — Mary Kay Ash

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them. — Justin Trudeau

The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury

Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers. — Joseph M. Juran

I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird. — Matthew Healy

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. — Steven Spielberg

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. — Emanuel Swedenborg

I work harder than every single person I know, and the only person that is on the same level as me is my brother. If you look at the top social media stars, it's me and him. I think that's our advantage. We're not the prettiest; we're not even the funniest, we're not the wittiest, whatever it is. — Jake Paul

You can take back all the things you give, But you can't take back the days you live. Life is to some people who've been on earth Livin' every single day for what it's worth. I live life just how I please, Satisfy one person I know: that's me. — Too $hort

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo. — Angela Davis

Being Single Quotes

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us - Pablo Neruda

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us — Pablo Neruda

We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire. — Emilio Aguinaldo

We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph. — Yip Man

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. - Meister Eckhart

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. — Meister Eckhart

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. - Carl Rogers

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. — Carl Rogers

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise. — Shimon Peres

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. — Warsan Shire

Single Mom Quotes

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson. — Paula White

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life. — Pema Chodron

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more! — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

You could spend hours of your day worrying about every single thing that goes in your mouth, or maybe you just go and give your mom a hug. — Tommy Wood

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time. — Steve McCurry

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. — Phyllis Diller

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success. — Henry Highland Garnet

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. — Melissa Etheridge

In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what. — M. J. Ryan

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More Single Women Quotes

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. - Warsan Shire quote

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. — Sharon Stone

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with. — Sarah Jessica Parker

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw — Candace Bushnell

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. — Victoria Woodhull

Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc. — Kumari Jayawardena

We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view. — Charlotte Bunch

One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so. — Sonia Johnson

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. — Anna Garlin Spencer

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes. — Michael Patrick King

Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is. — Charlotte Green

I was attracted to the positive outlook on women especially exploring relationships with different people and being confident and comfortable and strong. That was the kind of thing that was appealing to me, because that's what's real, and that's honest, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. That's what single women do. — Dakota Johnson

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way. — Bernie Sanders

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. — Susan B. Anthony

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman. — Kate Hudson

A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Their unspoken reasoning is quite simple. Abortion is the single greatest avenue for militant women to exercise their quest for power and advance their belief that men aren't necessary. — Rush Limbaugh

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. — Brian Tracy

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. — Lady Gaga

I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy. — Amy Dumas

Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism. — Pat Buchanan

I'm single because I was born that way. — Mae West

To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow. — Mary Wollstonecraft

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity. — Gerda Lerner

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights — Gloria Steinem

Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest. — Rita Rudner

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. — Jo Coudert

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day. — Jay Leno

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause. — Sayings

Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war. — Nathaniel Lyon

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude. — Sarah Mahoney

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman. — George Edward Woodberry

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside. — LL Cool J

So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder. — Albert Pierrepoint

Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property. The law has come a long way in favor of the woman, but it is the tradition, the attitudes, that we often have to fight. — Wangari Maathai

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God. — Sheila Walsh

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