Adele’s Reviews > Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own > Status Update
Adele
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"I'd never been alone in my life. As in, truly alone, made to rely solely on myself for a substantial stretch of time. Obviously I was independent; independence was my generation's birthright. ... It wasn't merely that my identity was constructed entirely out of my relationships with other people-my relationships *were* my identity. My relationships took the place of myself."
— Apr 24, 2016 06:21AM
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Adele
is on page 138 of 308
"The ubiquity of received attitudes about what men & women did and did not want seemed to relieve everyone of the responsibility to actually examine their desires, leading to some pretty bizarre behavior."
— Apr 24, 2016 04:30PM
Adele
is on page 27 of 308
You tell me; I tell you. Anything. All of it! Every close relationship since, friendships included, has coursed along this river of conversation. For me closeness was talking.
— Apr 23, 2016 08:53PM
