...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 feel comfortable at home and in the world, no matter your means (indeed, staying within your means), and arrange your life accordingly--a metaphorical architecture.

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Kate Bolick was American author, editor, and journalist. Kate Bolick is the author of New York Times bestseller Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own and a Lecturer in English at Yale University. Previously, she was a contributing editor for The Atlantic,, executive editor of Domino magazine, and host of "Touchstones at The Mount," an annual literary interview series at Edith Wharton’s country estate in the Berkshires. Read more on Wikipedia →

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