Marriage, it seemed to me, walled my favorite fictional women off from the worlds in which they had once run free, or, if not free, then at least forward, with currents of narrative possibility at their backs. It was often at just the moment that their educations were complete and their childhood ambitions coming into focus that these troublesome, funny girls were suddenly contained, subsumed, and reduced by domesticity.

—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies

About Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister (born 1975) is an American journalist who has covered U.S. politics with a focus on issues affecting women. She is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and has been a frequent guest commentator on cable news networks. She is the author of two bestsellers, All the Single Ladies...