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"Whenever I get down in the dumps about being single (like I did this past weekend, just ask my worried mom), I eventually come out of my mood and then I&amp;#x27;m a little embarrassed I was so dramatic. Why can&amp;#x27;t I just be one of those cool girls who totally embraces an independent life? It&amp;#x27;s a work in progress. But you know who is the pinnacle of that cool, independent, awesome woman I hope to be one day? Unsurprisingly, Stevie Nicks. In addition to being a music and befringed and beshawled style icon, she&amp;#x27;s also got some brilliant words of wisdom about being a woman on her own. Of course the woman who can pull off this outfit flawlessly is fiercely independent and cool. In an interview with Vulture (it&amp;#x27;s a really good read if you want to check out the whole thing), Nicks speak to her single status, saying that although some people worry about her loneliness, she&amp;#x27;s not concerned: &amp;amp;#8220;People say, &amp;amp;#8216;But you&amp;amp;#8217;re alone.&amp;amp;#8217; But I don&amp;amp;#8217;t feel alone. I feel very un-alone. I feel very sparkly and excited about everything. I know women who are going, like, &amp;amp;#8216;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to grow old alone.&amp;amp;#8217; And I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;amp;#8216;See, that doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t scare me.&amp;amp;#8217; Because I&amp;amp;#8217;ll never be alone. I&amp;amp;#8217;ll always be surrounded by people. I&amp;amp;#8217;m like the crystal ball, and these are all the rings of Saturn around me.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick,&amp;amp;#8221; she says. &amp;amp;#8220;And now I&amp;amp;#8217;m seeing that start to come around again, where people say to you, &amp;amp;#8216;Well, what do you mean you don&amp;amp;#8217;t have a boyfriend? You don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to have one? You don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to be married?&amp;amp;#8217; And you&amp;amp;#8217;re like, &amp;amp;#8216;Well, no, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t, actually. I&amp;amp;#8217;m fine.&amp;amp;#8217; And they find a lot of reasons why you&amp;amp;#8217;re not fine. But it just seems to be coming back. Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me,&amp;amp;#8221; she says. &amp;amp;#8220;I can remember her always saying, &amp;amp;#8216;If nothing else, I will teach you to be independent.&amp;#x27; &amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s not that she&amp;#x27;s not open to love, by the way. She hilariously accounts how she and Sheryl Crowe make up skits imagining what their videos for a matchmaking service might be like and, on the other hand, laments what might have turned out differently in her personal life during the eight years she feels she lost to the drug Klonopin. And she also says, &amp;amp;#8220;If that special man walked into my life, I&amp;amp;#8217;m the first one to say I would probably pack my bags and go with him. But it&amp;amp;#8217;s a very elusive thing.&amp;amp;#8221; And whether that happens or not, don&amp;#x27;t you just love her cool attitude and her assertion that being independent is something to aspire to, not something you have to do when you don&amp;#x27;t have a guy around? I&amp;#x27;m inspired and feeling a little sparkly myself! Do you share this awesome attitude about flying solo? Do you wish you did? More single lady inspiration: *The 10 Best Things About Being Single in the Summer *Single and Not Looking: 4 Ways I&amp;#x27;m Dating Myself and Loving It *Ever Feel Like the Only Single Girl Left in the World? Here&amp;amp;#8217;s Proof You Aren&amp;amp;#8217;t Photo: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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