Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Alice Koller, (Jan 0 0-0), US writer; She is best known for An Unknown Woman.