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| 5ff4008 | Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone) | solitude single-women the-solitary-life independent-women other-people men-and-women | Sue Grafton | |
| 6613fed | "I laughed at him as he said this. "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me--for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate." -- | true-love independent-women classics jane-eyre | Charlotte Brontë |