...you needs uh man.” Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone
 that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them...
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God