That seems to have been gospel for 1959. But many happily single women hear it even now. In a 2018 New York Times op-ed called “I’m in My 40s, Child-Free and Happy. Why Won’t Anyone Believe Me?”29 writer Glynnis MacNicol told the story of meeting an older man she admired at a dinner party. He told her she had a terrible life and had his leftover steak wrapped up for her to take home.
