Jennifer Aniston, Rihanna and More Celebrities’ Most Empowering Quotes About Being Single

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Jennifer Aniston, Rihanna and More Celebrities' Most Empowering Quotes About Being Single

Flying solo! Celebrities are known for making headlines for their romances, but the single life can be just as fulfilling as being part of a twosome. Jennifer Aniston has enjoyed her fair share of high-profile relationships including marriages to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005 and Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2017. The Friends alum explained to Elle in December 2018 that her marriage to Theroux ended because she chose to put her happiness before the fear of not being in a relationship. “Sure, there were bumps, and not every moment felt fantastic, obviously, but at the end of it, this is our one life and I would not stay in a situation out of fear," Aniston said at the time. "Fear of being alone. Fear of not being able to survive. To stay in a marriage based on fear feels like you’re doing your one life a disservice." [jwplayer WgjoLLSz-zhNYySv2] As for Pitt, the Horrible Bosses star sent fans into a frenzy when he and Aniston were spotted chatting backstage at the 2020 SAG Awards in January 2020. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star even paused backstage to listen to Aniston give her acceptance speech for her role in The Morning Show. However, a source told Us Weekly in February 2020 that the pair's relationship is strictly platonic despite the speculation. “There’s nothing romantic going on between Brad and Jen and they actually think it’s hysterical that fans are so obsessed with them getting back together,” the insider explained. Taylor Swift is also known for her many famous exes including John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Harry Styles and Calvin Harris. Although the "Lover" songstress has finally settled down with her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, her dating history led her to learn a few lessons about being single. "[Guys] can be a part of your life but never let the guy be your life," Swift told Katie Couric in October 2012. "They can live in your world, but never make the guy your world. Knowing who you are and being independent and strong will be attractive to the right guy." Scroll down to read some of the most empowering quotes from celebrities about being single.

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Jennifer Aniston, Rihanna and More Celebrities' Most Empowering Quotes About Being Single

Flying solo! Celebrities are known for making headlines for their romances, but the single life can be just as fulfilling as being part of a twosome. Jennifer Aniston has enjoyed her fair share of high-profile relationships including marriages to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005 and Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2017. The Friends alum explained to Elle in December 2018 that her marriage to Theroux ended because she chose to put her happiness before the fear of not being in a relationship. “Sure, there were bumps, and not every moment felt fantastic, obviously, but at the end of it, this is our one life and I would not stay in a situation out of fear," Aniston said at the time. "Fear of being alone. Fear of not being able to survive. To stay in a marriage based on fear feels like you’re doing your one life a disservice." [jwplayer WgjoLLSz-zhNYySv2] As for Pitt, the Horrible Bosses star sent fans into a frenzy when he and Aniston were spotted chatting backstage at the 2020 SAG Awards in January 2020. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star even paused backstage to listen to Aniston give her acceptance speech for her role in The Morning Show. However, a source told Us Weekly in February 2020 that the pair's relationship is strictly platonic despite the speculation. “There’s nothing romantic going on between Brad and Jen and they actually think it’s hysterical that fans are so obsessed with them getting back together,” the insider explained. Taylor Swift is also known for her many famous exes including John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Harry Styles and Calvin Harris. Although the "Lover" songstress has finally settled down with her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, her dating history led her to learn a few lessons about being single. "[Guys] can be a part of your life but never let the guy be your life," Swift told Katie Couric in October 2012. "They can live in your world, but never make the guy your world. Knowing who you are and being independent and strong will be attractive to the right guy." Scroll down to read some of the most empowering quotes from celebrities about being single.

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Jenna Ortega

“I hate being goo-goo gaga over a boy. I think it’s secretly a pride thing,” the Scream actress said in a March 2023 interview with Elle. “It’s a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy-oriented or what they’re expressing or emoting is based on a guy’s position and a guy’s story.”

She added: “Maybe I am too obsessed with my work, but the idea of relationships stresses me out. And also, being that vulnerable with someone and having to get to know someone that well and having someone see you for all that you are … My brain knows that I don’t need to think about that right now.”

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Amber Rose

“It's worse than ever,” the model said of dating during a January 2023 appearance on the “Sofia with an F” podcast. “[Men are] pretty disgusting out here. They're f—king gross. Like, I wanna be single for the rest of my life. I don't want to share my house or my life with anyone. I don't want anyone around my kids. I don't want to have sex. It's so gross. I don't want it.”

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Diane Keaton

"Let's [say] 15 years [since I have been on a date]. They probably just thought, 'Enough's enough … she's too weird.' I'm kind of odd, but I'm doing fine," the actress told Extra in January 2023. "Someday, someone will marry me. Maybe one of these nice men today that have to deal with me today."

Two months later, the Oscar winner said she thinks it's "highly unlikely" she'll ever date again. "I don't date," Keaton told AARP The Magazine in March 2023. "I don't remember anyone calling me, going, 'This is So-and-So, I'd like to take you out.' They don't happen. Of course not."

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Tracee Ellis Ross

The Black-ish star is "open to a relationship," but loves to spend time alone focusing on the things she enjoys. "I am happily single," Ross told Shape in October 2020. "In my wonderful and robust experience of being single, I have learned to have a productive relationship with loneliness and an intensely juicy relationship with my joyful solitude — I really enjoy my company."

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Lizzo

"I’m a very, very single bitch," the "Good As Hell" singer told People in July 2019, explaining that she is fiercely independent. "Even if I were in a relationship, I’m a single-minded individual, and I really like my freedom. I think there’s a lot of people that need to be in relationships and need to be in love. I want it sometimes, but I don’t need it."

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Lil Nas X

The "Old Town Road" singer is single — and loving it. "I’m at the best place I’ve ever been in life,” he told WSJ. Magazine in November 2021.

After getting out of a serious relationship, the rapper (real name Montero Lamar Hill) said that he realized that he wasn’t ready to jump back into the dating world just yet.

However, the split helped him “open up a lot. I was able to write actual stories about my life and put it into my music," he said, adding that all of the ex-boyfriends he wrote about on his 2021 record, Montero, attended the album’s release party.

“At the end of the day, I want to exist. I want to have fun, I want to cause chaos sometimes,” he told the magazine. “I want a long, legendary, fun life.”

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Selena Gomez

"I’ve been super, super single for two years,” Gomez, whose on-off romance with Justin Bieber ended for good in 2018, shared on The Zach Sang Show in October 2020. “I’ve been having way too much fun being on my own. It sucked for the first year, I was like, ‘I just want to cuddle. I just want to watch something and be adored.’ But now it feels good, it feels awesome."

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Allison Janney

"I really am at this time in my life getting to know who I am and what I want," the Mom alum said on The Drew Barrymore Show in April 2021. "So I'd love to eventually find someone to share my life with, but if it doesn't happen, I think I'll be just fine."

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Sharon Stone

After previously raising eyebrows with her presence on the Bumble dating app, Stone told Drew Barrymore in October 2020, "I'm done dating, I've had it with dating. I just find people to be insincere and not worth my time. I enjoy my alone time and time with my kids and my friends more."

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Diane Keaton

"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," the Annie Hall star previously told Wenn. "I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage."

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Stevie Nicks

"When we were really young, it was a lot easier. Because we were crazy. I'm not crazy now. We moved fast and furiously in those days, and I had lots of boyfriends and lots of amazing relationships and lots and lots of fun. I had enough fun and enough relationships to last me for the rest of my life, really," the Fleetwood Mac singer — who famously dated bandmates Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood in the past — told Vulture in 2013. "If that special man walked into my life, I'm the first one to say I would probably pack my bags and go with him. But it’s a very elusive thing. ... 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. I feel very sparkly and excited about everything."

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January Jones

The Mad Men alum welcomed son Xander in 2011 and while she's kept the identity of his father under wraps, she's totally conquered single motherhood. "Xander has a lot of bro time with the neighbor dads and my dad, who is super young. It's good to have strong women around a man to teach him to respect women," Jones told Red magazine in 2017. "He doesn't have a male person saying, 'Don't cry' or 'You throw like a girl.' All those s--tty things that dads accidentally do. ... I just don't feel I need a partner. Do I want one? Maybe. But I don't feel unhappy or lonely."

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Demi Lovato

"The best part about being single is knowing that my happiness is coming from no other person than myself," the "I Love Me" singer wrote in an Instagram Story in December 2020, three months after calling off their engagement to Max Ehrich.

Lovato's honest social media upload came shortly after they discussed their "roller-coaster" of a year.

"I think the most important thing that I've learned is how much I am OK with myself and loving myself. It wasn't until this year that I really started exploring the things that bring joy to my life in little ways," they said on Today With Hoda & Jenna in November 2020. 

The following year, the Disney alum publicly discussed their non-binary identity. 

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Tracee Ellis Ross

In Shape’s November 2020 cover story, the Black-ish star spoke about how she enjoys being single. “I am happily single, though that doesn’t mean I am not open to and don’t want a relationship,” she said. “But in my wonderful and robust experience of being single, I have learned to have a productive relationship with loneliness and an intensely juicy relationship with my joyful solitude— I really enjoy my company.”

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Lucy Hale

“When I was younger, I was constantly wanting to be with or date someone because I was so deathly afraid of being single or by myself,” the Pretty Little Liars alum told Cosmopolitan in its March 2020 cover story. “Now, I’m at the point where if I meet someone, they better really elevate my life, because I love being single.”

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Emma Watson

"If you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you're not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you're still figuring things out ... There's just this incredible amount of anxiety," the Harry Potter star told British Vogue in November 2019. "It took me a long time, but I'm very happy [being single]. I call it being self-partnered."

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Rihanna

"Guys need attention," the "Needed Me" songstress told the New York Times in 2015. "They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then. I’ll give it to my family, I’ll give it to my work — but I will not give it to a man right now.’’

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Drew Barrymore

"Sexual love is secondary to me right now," the Charlie's Angels star told Parade magazine in 2014. "I’ve spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. But for the last few years, my life just hasn’t been about that for me. It’s just not about the mother baggage. It’s not about the boy. It’s about something completely different, and it’s very refreshing. I’m trying to understand it and relish it."

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Mindy Kaling

"In my 20s, I was not only boy crazy, but marriage and relationship crazy," the Mindy Project star recalled to Flare magazine in 2014. "Now it's almost the opposite. My work is so rewarding and I'm so self-centered about it that I'm kind of excited about not having to go home and ask someone about their day."

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Khloé Kardashian

"I think being single is really healthy for people," the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star said while hosting a party at 1OAK Nightclub in 2014. "I think people who go from one relationship to another, I don’t know if they have a healing process or know what went wrong or how to better themselves."

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Taylor Swift

"So I'm really happy about the fact that being single doesn't feel like being alone," the "Blank Space" singer told E! News in 2014. "I have love in my life, I just don't have a relationship, and that feels really natural right now."

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Katy Perry

"I’ve learned I’m in a very modern fairytale, but I also know I don’t need the Prince Charming to have a happy ending," the "Wide Awake" singer told Daily Record in 2012. "I can make the happy ending myself."

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Jennifer Aniston

"Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," the Morning Show star said during a press conference in 2010. "Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days."