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