[custom_adv] In a 2014 issue of InStyle UK seen by E! News, Emilia Clarke said: "People keep asking me who I'm dating right now and the truth is… wait for it… no one. "And that's OK. I'm figuring out a lot of stuff right now. I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves." [custom_adv] Jennifer Aniston penned a personal essay to the Huffington Post in 2016 writing: "We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child."We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone." [custom_adv] Selena Gomez told "The Zach Sang Show" in October 2019: "I've been super, super single for two years and I want to know what the love will look like next for me. I want it to be real, and I don't want it to be codependent or messy or [have] a lack of communication. [custom_adv] According to Glamour magazine, Halle Berry once said:"A 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." [custom_adv] Drew Barrymore wrote in her memoir "Wildflower": "It's ironic that we rush through being 'single' as if it's some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome."The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone. And once it's gone, it's really gone! Why does no one tell us how important it is to enjoy being single and being by yourself?" [custom_adv] Emma Watson told Vogue in November 2019: "I never believed the whole 'I'm happy single' spiel. "... I was like, 'This is totally spiel.' It took me a long time, but I'm very happy [being single]. I call it being self-partnered." [custom_adv] Diane Keaton told The Independent in 2014: "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. [custom_adv] Susan Sarandon spoke to Reuters in 2012 and said: "[Single life] has been a lot of different things. It's traumatic and exhilarating. The one thing that's been really clear to me is that you have to think of your own life and your relationship and everything as a living organism.
