Quotes by 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 doesnt at least occasionally succumb to the nagging ...”

“The question Id long posed to myselfwhether to be married or to be singleis a false binary. The space in which Ive always wanted to liveindeed, where I have spend my adulthoodisnt between those two...”

“Whom to marry, and when will it happenthese two questions define every womans existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or doesnt practice. She may grow up to love wom...”

“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 were stuck with her. Now I realized I was wrong. Wha...”

“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, sl...”

“...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”

“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...”

“...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...”

“If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.”

“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.”

“Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.”

“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 th...”

“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 ...”