Kate Bolick Quotes

She never talked about wanting to have children. I believe she wanted solitude and cats.

our first experiences of pleasurable solitude teach us how to be content by ourselves and shape the conditions in which we seek it.

I suspected (and still do) that I would love being a mother...

She loved so many things - cats, dogs, roses, people - that sometimes I wonder if she chose to be alone to best enjoy them all.

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.

Few realizations are as demoralizing as knowing that the only thing standing between you and what you want is yourself,

But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I'd lose myself.

Those of us who've bypassed the exits for marriage and children tend to motor through our thirties like unlicensed drivers, unauthorized grownups.

When you find yourself at yet another crossroads, sorting out your best next step, it's as useful to know what you don't want as what you do.

I never shall be an old maid, because I have elected to be a Girl Bachelor.