Depaulo Quotes

#1. (In 2006, social psychologist Bella DePaulo, PhD, coined the word singlism to mean "the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination against people who are single.")

Kate Bolick

#2. DePaulo says that 'singlism'
a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her
is not just aimed at unmarried women.

Gail Collins

#3. Women are superior to men in decoding nonverbal cues (Rosenthal and DePaulo 1979).

David B. Givens

#4. The young adults of the time and their parents and pundits all wrung their hands. But they needn't have. "Those who did best tended to accept change, not to berate themselves for breaking with tradition."41

Bella DePaulo

#5. Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul "in some positive way".

Bella DePaulo

#6. Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

B. B. Warfield

#7. Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people?

Married people are on training wheels. Singles are riding the bikes for grown-ups.

Bella DePaulo

#8. Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Douglas MacArthur

#9. Marriage isn't a disease; it isn't catching. You don't have to pass it on to everybody you know. Unlike a woman I once heard admit "I've never been married but I tell people I'm divorced so they are not scared of me,

Bella DePaulo

#10. Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

Saint Basil

#11. And those who love us most lie to us most of all,

Ilona Andrews

#12. Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

Marlene Dietrich

#13. In one of the buildings where April lived, the girls befriended the kids who lived upstairs. "At first it was nice; but other times, it just felt like every time we got home, they were knocking on the door. And it stopped having that sort of safe-haven feeling to it.

Bella DePaulo

#14. The freedom to be single, to create a path through life that does not look like everyone else's, can be unsettling to people who feel more secure with fewer choices.

Bella DePaulo

#15. It can't happen here is number one on the list of famous last words.

David Crosby

#16. I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.

Ted Dekker

#17. Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

Maya Angelou

#18. Time, fertile in resources, more inventive and more charitable than we think, possesses a remarkable capacity to help us out, to afford us at any hour of the day some new humiliation.

Emil Cioran

#19. Dr. Hervey Cleckley wrote in The Mask of Sanity

Bella DePaulo

#20. On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

#21. Lethal Predators: Psychopathic, Sadistic, and Sane" in Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You inside the Criminal Mind, 2004.

Bella DePaulo