[1] Angier,Natalie,“The Changing American Family,”New York Times,November 26,2013,http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html.
[2] Smith-Rosenberg,Carroll,Disorderly Conduct.61–62.
[3] Bennett and Froide,Singlewomen in the European Past,85.
[4] Smith-Rosenberg,Disorderly Conduct,60.
[5] Ibid.,71–75.
[6] Norton,Mary Beth,Founding Mothers and Fathers,354.
[7] Lincoln,Abraham,“Dear Speed,Springfield,Ills.,Feby 13.1842,”Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:292?rgn=div1;view=fulltext,via Jennie Rothenberg Gritz,“But Were they Gay?The Mystery of Same-Sex Love in the 19th Century,”The Atlantic.com,September 7,2012.
[8] Gritz,“But Were They Gay?”The Atlantic.com.
[9] Willard,Frances,The Autobiography of an American Woman,642.
[10] Chevigny,Bell Gale,Margaret Fuller the Woman and the Myth,113.
[11] Coontz,Marriage,A History,205–206.
[12] All letters cited were written between August and October 1854,from Margaret Smith,ed.,The Letters of Charlotte Brontë:Volume Three 1852–1855.
[13] Mailer,Norman,“The Mary McCarthy Case,”The New York Review of Books,October 17,1963,in Nussbaum,Emily,“Hannah Barbaric,”The New Yorker,February 11,2013.
[14] Episode One,Makers:Women Who Make America,PBS,February 26,2013.
[15] Syme,Rachel,“The Broad Strokes,”Grantland.com,January 14,2015,http://grantland.com/features/broad-city-season-2-comedy-central-abbi-jacobson-ilana-glazer/.