All the public drumrolling about deciding not to get married, or to live alone, or to have a baby on one?s own, is in direct proportion to the resistance single people still feel from the culture, the curiously old-fashioned outsider status they seem to enjoy. It is testimony to how much truth still holds in Helen Gurley Brown?s statement that the single woman?s ?whole existence seems to be an apology for not being married.? Why, one might wonder, should single women still be apologizing to anyone, explaining, elaborating, elucidating, as though they are stuck between the pages of an Austen or Trollope novel? These articles would not continue to appear and we would not continue to read them if the choices they described were simply the boring, private choices they should be. (Or as Helen Gurley Brown wrote to the single girl, ?You may marry or you may not. In today?s world that is no longer the big question for women.?)
Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=4379ac672b0632d2ad1958e8db64fe13
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