Salman Rushdie Quotes

I think certainly that looking for love is a big part of the show, but I think that if - there's one thing that is different about 'Sex and the City' and the message that I think has resonated with viewers, especially women. It's that you don't need to get married. You don't really need that love to be fulfilled.

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

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.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I am single and happy.

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.

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.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

You alone are enough.

You should know how to take care of yourself. That's one of the things that I got from my mother most - she always said that if you don't take care of yourself, no one will.

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

I am totally okay on my own. I don't want to have to have a man to feel whole. It's not that I need that to feel like I have a full life. No, I have a full life.

I don't need a person to make me happy.

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

You become a better dater when you have a truly fulfilling life that is not dependent on someone else. Even if someone leaves, your life continues unscathed.

I don't need a man. I'm really happy with myself and being with my friends.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

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

I don't need a man in my life.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.