Oct 13, 2011
Notes
thingsiatethatilove: “All this time, I’d been regarding my single life as a temporary interlude, one I had to make the most of—or swiftly terminate, depending on my mood. Without intending to, by actively rejecting our pop-culture depictions of the single woman—you know the ones—I’d been terrorizing myself with their specters. But now that 35 had come and gone, and with yet another relationship up in flames, all bets were off. It might never happen. Or maybe not until 42. Or 70, for that matter. Was that so bad? If I stopped seeing my present life as provisional, perhaps I’d be a little … happier. Perhaps I could actually get down to the business of what it means to be a real single woman.” Kate Bolick, All The Single Ladies, must-read. (hyperlink metacommentary mine not hers, of course. Of the many broken-clock-right-twice-a-day things SATC nailed, Being On A Magazine Cover Is Inevitably Weird might be my favorite).

thingsiatethatilove:

“All this time, I’d been regarding my single life as a temporary interlude, one I had to make the most of—or swiftly terminate, depending on my mood. Without intending to, by actively rejecting our pop-culture depictions of the single woman—you know the ones—I’d been terrorizing myself with their specters. But now that 35 had come and gone, and with yet another relationship up in flames, all bets were off. It might never happen. Or maybe not until 42. Or 70, for that matter. Was that so bad? If I stopped seeing my present life as provisional, perhaps I’d be a little … happier. Perhaps I could actually get down to the business of what it means to be a real single woman.”

Kate Bolick, All The Single Ladies, must-read.

(hyperlink metacommentary mine not hers, of course. Of the many broken-clock-right-twice-a-day things SATC nailed, Being On A Magazine Cover Is Inevitably Weird might be my favorite).

(Source: emilygould)

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