Roses are red. Violets are blue. I don’t need a man and neither do you!
Valentine’s Day is back for another year. For all the loved-up couples, congratulations… but for all the single folk out there, the notorious V-Day is just as much about you!
There are so many advantages to being single and ready to mingle. For example: no-one hogs the doona. Or, if you prefer MKR over I’m a Celeb, no worries – the remote’s all yours!
So forget the thorns and smell the roses, because you are fabulous! And some of Tinseltown’s finest agree.
No longer should you dread February 14, click through the gallery to read 13 quotes about the beauty of being single from your favourite Hollywood starlets.
“You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone.” Sing it, Rihanna!
Taylor Swift is the embodiment of independence: “I’m perpetually single. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights, and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don’t act like you’ve been hit by the plague when you’re alone on a Friday night, and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it’s not a bad day.”
Sam Armytage don’t need no man!“It’d be lovely to get married one of these days but I look at a few friends of mine who have really bad marriages and badly behaved children and think, ‘Oh my God’, so I don’t necessarily need marriage and kids for the sake of it.”
Diane Keaton says, “I remember when I was young I honestly believed in some ridiculous way that you would find someone who would be the person you lived with until you died. I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.”
While Game of Thrones queen Emilia Clarke isn’t dating anyone, she has admitted that she had an old-fashioned view of love, “I’m soppy and I do like to believe that when the right person comes along, it will work, because you want to make it work. Everyone else seems to manage it.”
Speaking of how she deals with not being in a relationship, Mindy Kaling mused, “I think what snaps me out of it is just the fact that I love being by myself. I think that if I was in the wrong relationship, which I have been in several, that would be so much worse than the feeling of autonomy I feel right now.”
Stevie Nicks has these wise words: “People say to you, ‘Well, what do you mean you don’t have a boyfriend? You don’t want to have one? You don’t want to be married?’ And you’re like, ‘Well, no, I don’t, actually. I’m fine.’ And they find a lot of reasons why you’re not fine. But it just seems to be coming back. Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me. I can remember her always saying, ‘If nothing else, I will teach you to be independent.’ “
Of course we have to mention every single gal’s fearless leader… Miss Carrie Bradshaw! She may be fictional but there is a whole lotta truth to this mantra: “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.”
