“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social inhibition and increased freedom to select one’s mental and physical activities.” — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“The freedom to be single, to create a path through life that does not look like everyone else's, can be unsettling to people who feel more secure with fewer choices.” — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would offer a… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“I ask Andrew if he would mind offering some advice to younger people about how to live. He thinks they should ask themselves, What… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
People tell about two lies a day, or at least that is how many they will admit to. — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“Writing often in the pages of the New York Times, Allison Arieff is a powerful spokesperson. “Bring back the sidewalk!” she urged in one… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“In one of the buildings where April lived, the girls befriended the kids who lived upstairs. “At first it was nice; but other times,… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“Historians estimate that up to half of nineteenth-century city residents were either boarding or maintaining a boardinghouse.2 Single” — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“The other side of mental blanketing - the buffing and puffing up of marriage to keep it seeming shiny and magical - is up… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“The young adults of the time and their parents and pundits all wrung their hands. But they needn’t have. “Those who did best tended… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“The freedom to be single, to create a path through life that does not look like everyone else's, can be unsettling to people who… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“There is another reason ever-single women fare even better than previously married women in later life. They mastered the single life long ago. From… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
