“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 to accept change, not to berate themselves for breaking with tradition.”41” — 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 better quality of life.5 Although many of the professionals were architects, their focus was on people and human interactions, more than on buildings. They imagined neighborhoods where people would be out on the streets, walking to… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share
“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
