It was the first honest emotional connection I’d had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

Gran, for the gods’ love, it’s talk like yours that starts riots!” I said keeping my voice down. “Will you just put a stopper in it?”She looked at me and sighed. “Girl, do you ever...

Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.

You don’t walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.

There were the endless birthday nights and New Year’s Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would...

When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes.

No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she’d learned during a university...

Personally, I’d rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I’ve met so far. I don’t experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don’t talk about that much. It seems to...