All the Single Ladies

It's a feminist history with real anecdotes from women of all different backgrounds and circumstances, including the author's own story. I loved every bit of it because it is true and it is necessary.

It's the textbook that I wish I had growing up as a young girl who knew that she didn't want to get married and didn't want to have children. I grew up in a Hispanic family that took my premonitions and profession of a single life the same way the Hispanic family in One Day at a Time takes the news of a niece who proudly pronounces her lesbian sexuality: with a care-free hands thrown up above the shoulders gesture, and a “what can you do? It is what it is but I'm not completely acknowledging it” attitude.

All the Single Ladies provides a history that I only knew glimpses of, mentions a movement that I knew from one feminist history course in college but desperately want to know more of. It provided the context of this nation's history of the single woman and the life-changing powerful impact single ladies have on this country's social, political, and economic old-fashioned structures.