Top 100 Woman Alone Quotes
#1. The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
Louise Colet
#3. It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. A woman's rank
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
Therein alone she is royal.
George Eliot
#5. A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.
Claire Cameron
#6. In his hours alone, his mind wandered to a million possible outcomes, and he marveled at how long it had been since he had felt so preoccupied by a woman. It was because she was that rare thing, genuinely unobtainable. He should have given up days ago.
Jojo Moyes
#7. Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan
#8. I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone.
Danielle Steel
#9. No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
George Sand
#10. There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.
Kate Chopin
#11. There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
Cary Grant
#13. I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#14. The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.
Austin Grossman
#15. Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'
Anna Held
#16. Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst,
Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest,
With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd,
And wander'd in the solitary shade.
The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd
Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
Alexander Pope
#17. I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire - where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!
Catherynne M Valente
#18. I stand alone, a woman, a girl, and a child.
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail.
Abigail George
#19. Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
Saint Augustine
#20. The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#21. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Molly Haskell
#22. So, now I am left with two unfortunate facts in my life. Mondays are creepy Chuck day, and even my mother thinks I'm getting desperate in the man department.
Lindsay Detwiler
#23. In June, Deacon noticed a pattern where Thursday was concerned. Woman, fight, brood alone in angry silence, rinse, and repeat
Mercy Celeste
#24. And don't stress about the trip. We'll find some alone time in London," he continued, bending his head closer to mine. "Nothing keeps 007 from romancing a beautiful woman.
Cassidy Calloway
#25. How you tell the boys from men. Men know how to get a woman soaking wet without doing a single thing. Boys have to touch and caress with their hands ... real men can make you come with words alone.
Amelia Hutchins
#26. Back in his dating days, a man didn't go to a woman's house if she lived alone. He might pick her up at the front porch, but he wouldn't go inside. Propriety ruled.
Karen Kingsbury
#27. In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the
public.
Franz Grillparzer
#28. Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.
Mandy Hale
#29. What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
Robin Hobb
#30. I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
Sheryl Swoopes
#31. The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Albert Einstein
#32. Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.
Elias Canetti
#33. Let us alone, little woman. We understand each other, don't we, doctor? Why, bless your life, he gives me better than he gets many a time; only, you see, he sugars it over, and says a sharp thing, and pretends it's all civility and humility; but I can tell when he's giving me a pill.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#34. Lying in bed next to the wrong woman is a million times lonelier than lying in bed alone.
Sofia Grey
#35. But pomp and power alone are woman's care,
And where these are light Eros finds a feere;
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
George Gordon Byron
#36. Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!
Ikkyu
#37. When I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.
Marilynne Robinson
#38. Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.
Tehmina Durrani
#39. You were formed inside a borrowed womb - a nourishing safe haven for months - then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.
Alfa H
#41. Biology alone cannot provide an answer to the question that concerns us: why is woman the Other? The question is how, in her, nature has been taken on in the course of history; the question is what humanity has made of the human female.
Simone De Beauvoir
#42. Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.
J. K. Bharavi
#43. What a pull he has! What a magnetism! Women jump off balconies and follow him into wars. Women turn their eyes from an affair, because a marriage of three is better than a woman alone.
Naomi Wood
#44. The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
Ida Tarbell
#45. The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
Beth Henley
#46. MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.
Georg Buchner
#47. You can't go to the bathroom alone ... you might not come back. Cause no girl's ever been to the bathroom alone and survived. It's true. The last woman that attempted it, it was 1937 and her name was Amelia Earhart.
Iliza Shlesinger
#48. I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.
Leighton Meester
#49. All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child
Mary Ann Glendon
#50. Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.
Priyanka Chopra
#51. A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver
#52. Leave me alone, or I will shoot," a woman's husky voice rang out through the broken window. "I'm not too afraid to blow your ass right back to whatever hell you come from.
Rose Wynters
#53. Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.
Alice Walker
#54. In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that foundation stone; chastity is their jewel, their centrepiece, which they run mad to protect, and die when ravished of.
Virginia Woolf
#55. Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this to Prudence herself; it seemed rather a macabre fancy and not one to be confided to an unmarried woman living alone.
Barbara Pym
#56. I think every family has that moment when the parents realize they need help and think, Oh my gosh. We cannot do this all alone. Every woman has that panic at some point in motherhood when you feel completely overwhelmed and constantly tired.
Nia Long
#57. What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid
#59. She is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sitting upon a rock
by the ocean
alone and damned.
I could have had
her once. I wonder
if she thinks I
could have
saved her?
Charles Bukowski
#60. It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#61. The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone ... She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.
Joy Harjo
#62. I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
Daisy Ridley
#63. If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.
Grantly Dick-Read
#64. There is tremendous need in today's world to "be successful" when the world looks at you as a woman and a Christian. Prayers alone does not produce Success nor entirely a matter of background, intelligence or education but attraction of VIRTUE!
Ibiloye Abiodun Christian
#65. Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
David Gemmell
#66. i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.
who could i love more than this peace?
AVA.
#67. No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.
Maj Sjowall
#68. Regardless of how pretty a woman is, looks alone will not sustain his respect. Appearance may pull him in, but it is your independence that will keep him turned on.
Sherry Argov
#70. It is not always easy, for a woman alone.
Jude Morgan
#71. At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris Pasternak
#72. He wished at that moment that his whole life had not been a secret, that lots of people were like him, instead of his being alone in a world where everyone was secure in their place as either woman or man. His aloneness was what made him feel ashamed, and he did not know why it had to be so.
Kathleen Winter
#73. My child died last night - and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking, black-clad men bringing a coffin, and they will put him in it, my poor boy, my only child.
Stefan Zweig
#74. 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
#75. If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#76. Alone beneath a tallow candle, she allowed herself a shuddering sob, then another. A woman may weep, but not a queen.
George R R Martin
#77. On the strength of his literary output alone ... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#78. A man can't live alone forever and when a woman comes along who accepts him, his faults and demons, maybe it's time he reevaluates his future.
Airicka Phoenix
#79. Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.
Andrea Dworkin
#80. Alone, my arse, he thought. I'll walk in alone, while my men sneak up behind them and destroy every last one of the bastards who took my woman.
Karen Marie Moning
#81. My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
Donna Karan
#82. I understand the influence you have all too well. The commander will do exactly what you want, bend to your will. That alone should prove to you that strength is a woman's endowment, not a man's.
Cayla Kluver
#83. I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner
Munia Khan
#84. It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
Bette Davis
#85. Well, you know, just some old man all alone. God, I hope I don't end up alone like that. Some pathetic old woman with nobody to go on a whale watch with.
Augusten Burroughs
#86. Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#87. Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?
Elizabeth Hawes
#88. Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.
Angelina Jolie
#89. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
Abraham Lincoln
#90. Only a fool would argue with a woman, let alone this woman - she'd win the argument and then kill the man for her troubles.
K.F. Breene
#91. Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.
Charles Bukowski
#92. Achan carried Arman inside him. He was part of Arman's light. So was every man, woman and child in Er'Rets who believed. Alone, as one man, Achan could not succeed. But if all the people joined together ...
Because the temple of Arman was his people.
Jill Williamson
#93. When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
Alanis Morissette
#94. [Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door]
Nollopton
Monty No-way 6
Insane woman named Ella:
Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone.
Anonymess
Mark Dunn
#95. When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
Neil Strauss
#96. When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.
Claire Messud
#97. Until a person, man or woman, has enjoyed this treasure bathed in the mutual bliss of minds linked as closely as bodies, that person is still as virginal and alone as if he has never copulated.
Robert A. Heinlein
#98. Emma was a woman on a mission, and Logan was more than fine with that since the mission seemed to be getting alone - and naked - with him.
Cat Johnson
#99. But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.
C.S. Lewis
#100. The restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)
Jack Kerouac
