I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.