Shirley MacLaine Quotes

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

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

I'm in a relationship with myself. I think a lot of young girls should do that.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I decided after my last divorce to marry myself.

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

I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

I like women who are okay with who they are.