Women Who Don't Want to Get Married

"I think people get freaked out about getting married and spending 20 or 30 years sleeping with the same person but if that's the case, don't do it. Have someone for five years and another person for another five years."

— Cameron Diaz on alternatives to lifelong relationships

"I’m attracted to men, and I love playing around with them. But a life shared together? That’s a different world. I think you have to be somebody who can compromise and be realistic. I could never do it. Ever."

— Diane Keaton on why marriage wasn't for her

"My sister [Emily] was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. I like kids, and I like being around kids — but it was never an ambition, something, like, I need . . . I like working. That's what I like doing."

— Zooey Deschanel on her motivations

"I've always liked the idea of choosing to be with somebody. I thought that if you didn't get married you wouldn't take each other for granted as easily."

— Susan Sarandon on why she never married Tim Robbins

"It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I have choices. I don't look back on the past because I like to live in the present. I know this makes some people think I probably never cared, but I need my freedom and I like to keep moving."

— Juliette Binoche on the downside of long-term relationships

"I already have nine nieces and nephews, and I give a lot of myself to them . . . I’ve never been proposed to, and I don’t know that that’s in my future . . . I don’t know that I’m marriage material. I don’t know if I would ever want to be someone’s wife. It makes breaking up much more complicated."

— Chelsea Handler on her doubts about marriage

"Without sounding pessimistic, I learned that I don’t believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There’s no paper that will make you stay.”

— Diane Kruger on what her first marriage taught her

"I actually think it's really sexy to be with someone in your fifties and sixties and be like, 'That's my boyfriend. I think husband and wife is just . . . very unsexy."

— Eva Mendes on how marriage is unsexy

"America is obsessed with getting married. (But) what America is obsessed with is not actually the marriage itself. . . . They want a wedding, they want some doves to fly, they want a pretty Oscar de la Renta gown. . . . They are not interested in my life, is it meaningful, or is there a real intimacy there."

— Oprah on the marriage obsession