Lonliness

"I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own lonliness but also find the good in it, like when Audrey Hepburn said 'I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.' and when Charlotte Bronte said 'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.' And when Jenny Slate said ' I think I've come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of lonliness running through who I am. But that's why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be apart of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself with it! Your choice!' And when Mary Oliver said 'Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.'"