Zitat des Tages über Allein leben / Living Alone:
If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.
I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.