“ ...go live happily alone requires a serious amount of intentional thought. It's not as simple as signing the lease on your own apartment and leaving it at that. You must figure out what you need to fe… Kate Bolick
“ Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe. Kate Bolick
“ ...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me Kate Bolick
“ Every year I try to reread Doris Lessing’s slim 1987 polemic (originally a lecture series), Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. In the book, this epicist of the female experience, as the Swedish Academy… Kate Bolick
“ How even I, a dutiful daughter, as Simone de Beauvoir once described her young self, was living a life so different from my mother’s; when she was my age she was married, about to become pregnant with… Kate Bolick
“ When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs. Kate Bolick
“ Being single is like being an artist, not because creating a functional single life is an art form, but because it requires the same close attention to one's singular needs, as well as the will and fo… Kate Bolick
“ If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive. Kate Bolick
“ At first I thought it was simply that the specter of the crazy bag lady has been branded so simply into the collective female consciousness that we’re stuck with her. Now I realized I was wrong. What… Kate Bolick
“ Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or doesn’t practice. She may grow up to love wom… Kate Bolick
“ The question I’d long posed to myself—whether to be married or to be single—is a false binary. The space in which I’ve always wanted to live—indeed, where I have spend my adulthood—isn’t between those… Kate Bolick
“ Today we tell girls to grow up to be or do whatever they want. But the cultural pressure to become a mother remains very strong; rare is she who doesn’t at least occasionally succumb to the nagging fe… Kate Bolick
“ When you're single, you are often buried in time, your mouth and eyes and ears stuffed with it. You hate it, rail against it, do whatever you can to get rid of it--work too much, drink too much, sleep… Kate Bolick
