I think she meant Ess-Boh (for small business owner)? But relistening, it really sounds like the first usage, she clearly says “escort.” I mean no offence to actual escorts, here, by the comparison.

Some of us just ain’t cut out for domestication.

...she’s definitely saying if you have enough money to be able to make choices, in your life, it’s your responsibility to figure out what those choices should be for your own happiness. And if it involves moving away from your family or abandoning everything that your family or your friends have told you that you…

I’ve had a vintage 1936 copy of Live Alone and Like It for years. I love just opening it up randomly and reading great morsels like this one on how to throw a cocktail party: “The seven essential bottles contain sherry, gin, Scotch, rye, French and Italian vermouth, and bitters. Sherry for the mild drinkers and more…

“Because I’m a necrophiliac, so the guys I’m into never like me back.”

I also love Perd.

That would be ideal.

OMG it is a gift.
During the winter I absolutely loooooove getting home from work on Friday and then not leaving again until work on Monday.

That book has been sitting on my Kindle for almost a year and I’m SO eager to finally get around to it.

Oh yay! Thank you for passing that along, I am really glad she enjoyed it!

There’s a book called A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Depression that touches briefly on this. Single women statistically weren’t helped by breadlines and other food relief programs. Aside from the physical risk of being alone amongst a lot of men, the social stigma and shame of having to out yourself as an…

I mean, it’s living the dream.

This was an awesome interview! Thanks to both Faircloth & Stutts for this. I’m going to have to dig up this long-overlooked gem of a book, to get a picture of how I might have been viewed/acculturated if I lived in the 1930s. I often wonder idly what it’d be like if I lived in this-or-that time period, having the…

“Yeah, I’d invite you in but, the place burned to the ground after you called and said you were stopping by. Denny’s?”

I have found that you should give yourself a one or two days week to do that—let it all go to hell—but the rest of the time keep it in good enough shape that if someone came over with only 10 minutes warning you wouldn’t want to burn the place down because it was in such disarray.

A friend of mine bought me a copy of this book for my birthday last year. His husband thought it was in bad taste as I am the perennial single girl—but I thought it actually has a lot of good advice and was a very entertaining read.

And for single women to say, on balance, everything that I have as a single person is better than the compromises that I would have to make to be in an unsatisfactory relationship, and I’m not going to give up the happiness that i have in blind pursuit of something that society tells me that I need.

Huh. I have been living fully alone for over 20 years and I actually view the ability to not do the things I would do if other people are around as a complete gift. I work a demanding job and have a wide circle of friends, but cherish what I call the “check in” weekend, where I basically check into my house on Friday…

Kelly (with apologies for being OT): I attended a lecture by Lindsay Fitzharris on Halloween, afterward she signed copies of her book. When I got to her she asked how I heard about her book and I said “Your interview on Jezebel.” and she smiled a big smile and said “That was so much fun!!!”