Cathy Freeman Quotes

I will not even tell my daughter to get married if she does not find her life partner. I would rather push her for education and financial independence.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

I want to go out on my terms.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.

Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

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

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?

No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be.

I live the life I want to lead.

I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

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

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!