If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.
There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.