Andy M.

“Here is the nexus of where work, gender, marriage, and money collide: Dependency.”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“When people call single women selfish for the act of tending to themselves, it's important to remember that the very acknowledgement that women have selves that exist independently of others, and especially independent of husbands and children, is revolutionary. A true age of female selfishness, in which women recognized and prioritized their own drives to the same degree to which they have always been trained to tend to the needs of all others, might, in fact, be an enlightened corrective to centuries of self-sacrifice.”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies

“we have been taught to fear the very things that have the potential to set us free”
― Alok Vaid-Menon

“The fact is, being married to your job for some portion or all of your life, even if it does in some way inhibit romantic prospects, is not necessarily a terrible fate, provided that you are lucky enough to enjoy your work, or the money you earn at it, or the respect it garners you, or the people you do it with. Earning,”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation