Meghan Keane

“When someone asks “Do you have a family?” at a dinner party, they don’t mean “Do you have any siblings? Found family? A mother you care for?” No. They mean: “Do you have kids and are you married?” Sure, it’s framed as polite conversation. But the assumption is telling about what our culture finds to be normal and acceptable.”
― Meghan Keane, Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner

“Everything I watched and read and listened to was telling me that to be without a boyfriend meant social isolation. It meant being a freak, a loser. Now that I’m older, I see how all the qualities that I now love about myself—my outspokenness, my sense of humor, my nerdy interests—were the ones my culture was telling me I needed to suppress in order to find my Freddie Prinze Jr.”
― Meghan Keane, Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner