Getting Comfortable -Reading Spinster By Kate Bolick
This week I read Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick. A book about solitude, gender, writing, amazing women, and trying to find and live a life that makes you happy. I think it was a good week to read this. Marriage Equality is free in the U.S. as of this week, the number of unmarried people in the U.S. right now hovers around 105 Million, and the national census states that for every 84 unmarried man in the country there are 100 women. Living alone, not being in a relationship, accounts for a vast part of the population. We are struggling as a culture to define ourselves, instead of just allowing everyone to be happy, and healthy, and live their own lives. Spinster focuses on the history of the word, the history of women, and the idea that you can by happy, no matter if that happiness is not what is the cultural norm. S pinster focuses on is the many women who have helped shape Bolick's views. She is a writer, so she brings up a mob of women writ