Glynnis MacNichol

Goodness.

And I'm like, well, I'm mostly here to enjoy myself.

I feel like it leaves a little space for the acknowledgement of

You know, life.

Other things will happen.

Other things exist and I'm aware of them.

I think Carolyn Bessette, in some weird way, you arrive in New York in your early 20s and you're trying to map out some way to be.

And she, for me, was an avatar of, oh, is this a way to be in the world?

Is this, does she represent some sort of

way for me to progress in this city as the person I would like, how I would like to exist, having sort of very few role models in my life, which is I think our relationship to fame.

So as I get older, and when you ask me why I write about these things, is that after a certain age, when you're outside marriage or partnership and you're outside motherhood as a woman, you are really left without many blueprints for how to exist in the world.

And I'm constantly trying to navigate my way

Without a lot of cultural assistance, I would say.

Not that I don't have people in my life living like this.

You have the women from Sex and the City.

It's not just a long time ago, but they're all in their early 30s, right?

That show ends when they're 37 and it marries them all off except Samantha.

And also, that show is somewhat...

limited aren't there more women though aren't there more single people now than there are married this is my issue this is my issue is that i can look to my left and i look to my right and in my life i see many people living like me and when i look to film or television shows or

novels, there is an absolute, we still don't know how to tell a story of a woman that does not take you towards the satisfying love solution or the wedding third act.