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Time & Perspective Quote by Stevie Nicks

"You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility"

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Stevie Nicks sells hope with a wink, and the wink is doing half the work. "The man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow" is rom-com language, but she delivers it as a seasoned performer who knows fantasy is both a coping mechanism and a creative fuel. The sentence is deliberately light on specifics: no name, no type, just the cinematic corner. That vagueness keeps the dream portable. It can belong to anyone listening.

"I'm older and wiser" carries the hard-earned subtext: she has survived the kind of love stories that turn into lyrics, lawsuits, and legends. Nicks is famous for turning intimate chaos into myth, and here she refuses the cultural script that aging women should become either bitter realists or graceful retirees from desire. Instead, she reframes maturity as competence: "I'd make a great girlfriend". It's a slyly radical line because it treats partnership as a skill, not a prize she has aged out of winning.

"I live in the realm of romantic possibility" is her brand statement in miniature. Possibility is not naivete; it's a chosen aesthetic. For an artist whose persona is all velvet dusk and stage-lit prophecy, romance isn't just personal life, it's worldview. The intent is to keep the door cracked: to love, to be surprised, to keep writing. Nicks isn't promising a fairytale. She's insisting on the right to keep imagining one - and to sound unapologetically alive while doing it.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Nicks, Stevie. (n.d.). You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-know-the-man-of-my-dreams-might-walk-round-168534/

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Nicks, Stevie. "You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-know-the-man-of-my-dreams-might-walk-round-168534/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-know-the-man-of-my-dreams-might-walk-round-168534/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Stevie Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is a Musician from USA.

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