Darren Star Quotes

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

I am very content being single. I don't feel the need of someone absolutely having to be with me to make me feel like a woman.

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

You don't need a man to make you happy, let's just be clear about that. All right?

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

You should never need a guy to make you feel complete.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

I like women who are okay with who they are.

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.

Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood.

My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.

You alone are enough.

As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.