Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

If you’re 35 and single and it’s a choice, it feels fine. So I didn’t settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

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

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

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

So many people think being single is the end of something, but it's really a beginning - a good beginning.

A great time in my life was being totally single and actively not dating. Just saying, 'I'm gonna not be in a relationship. I'm gonna not date.' That was a super fun, awesome time.

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 gratifying part of my journey is no one calls me a star child or a superstar's wife anymore. I think I have grown beyond that and have my own identity.

I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.

At the end of the day, you have to do what's best for you, and I support any guy who stays home.

I guess that there are many ways to look at being single, and none of them should include shame or feeling less valued.

I decided I would never let anyone decide who I was.

I've only been in one relationship in my entire life so far. When that ended, I decided being with someone is not for me. I like my own company the best.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

Find your self-esteem and be forever free to dream.

You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?” “No. A statement of fact.

I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.