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. - Sex and the City

以前，单身说明你没人要。现在，单身说明你很性感，说明你正从容不迫地挑选自己想要的生活方式，挑选你想要与之一起生活的人。——《欲望都市》

 

Being single is getting over the illusion¹ that there is somebody out there to complete you and taking charge of your own life. - Omkar Phatakc

不要幻想你的真命天子会来填补你的空缺、接管你的生活。真正的单身需要克服这种错觉。——奥姆卡尔·帕塔科

 

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude². - Warsan Shire

我一个人感觉很不错，只有你的陪伴比我的独处更甜蜜，我才会需要你。——沃森·赛尔

 

Too many women throw themselves into romance³ because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises⁴ and losing their identity⁵. I won't do that. - Julie Delpy

很多女人因为害怕单身而逼自己恋爱，然后就开始妥协，失去个性。我是不会那样做的。——朱丽·德尔比

 

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them. - Sloane Crosley

如果一个人要在你的要求下才会改变、才会说爱你、才会在吃晚饭时带酒、才会在飞机降落后给你打电话，那你们之间的关系是你无法承受的。——斯劳恩·克罗斯利

 

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. - Elizabeth Gilbert

这些天以来，我孤独的时候会想：孤独就孤独吧，利兹。摸清孤独周围的路，做一张地图，好好跟孤独相处吧，这可是你从来没试过的。欢迎前来体验人生。不要再用别人的身体或感情来填补自己内心的空虚了。——伊利莎白·吉尔伯特

 

Personally, I, Mindy Kaling want to spend like 80 percent of my life hanging out with women. - Mindy Kaling

我明迪·卡琳想要用80%的人生和女人一起玩。——明迪·卡琳

 

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin

一个女人期望着男人给她建造她理想中的世界，而不是自己亲手创造，这真是大错特错。——阿娜伊斯·宁

 

It seemed to me that the desire to get married – which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal⁶ in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again. - Nora Ephron

在我看来，结婚的渴望是存在于女人最根本的思想当中的，这真是令我深感抱歉，而且这种渴望几乎马上会被一种同样根本的诉求，也就是重新单身，所取代。——诺拉·埃夫龙

 

It is good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy. The fact that something is difficult must be one more reason to do it. - Rilke

孤独是好事，因为孤身一人并不容易。一件事很困难也是去做这件事的理由。——里尔克

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