So she was alone for most of her life and never had a home of her own. And she did marry briefly for five years, didn't work out. And she lived alone in various apartments and hotels. Maeve Brennan was a staff writer at The New Yorker and would write these "Talk of the Town" columns. On women whose lives didn't go according to plan And a lot has changed in 15 years, it's a much different landscape now. And then in my own life, everyone I knew was getting married or talking about getting married. So I didn't feel like there was a legitimate representation of the complexities of what it means to be a single person in the world in our pop culture. It was as if single women were a comic figure. And there was a way in which the conversation around single women or how single women spoke about themselves was very self-deprecating. You could either be Carrie Bradshaw and be very fabulous and frivolous, or you could be Bridget Jones and be pathetic and desperate. I noticed that there wasn't any positive depiction of single women in popular culture at that moment in time. I must create a foundation for myself, I must be able to take care of myself and that was more important to me than anything else.ฤก5 to almost 20 years ago was when I was setting out. And I also felt that the shock of losing her before I had started my own life had made me feel very strongly that I must start my life.
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