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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 10, 2016 11:42 AM UTC  First comes love, then comes ... whatever you want First comes love, then comes ... whatever you wantNo Credit  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 10, 2016 11:42 AM UTC Susan B. Anthony made a prediction in 1877: one day women would be liberated enough not to marry, ushering in “an epoch of single women.” That epoch, according to Rebecca Traister’s _All the Single Ladies_, is now. There are more unmarried than wedded American women, and they are a stealth political and cultural force. _Single Ladies_ is less concerned with what it feels like to be a single woman–like the empowerment of installing one’s own AC–than with how we got here and what it means. Women no longer need partners, but married people still enjoy health, tax and other benefits unavailable to individuals. Traister’s point: the old model isn’t coming back, and the new one needs to be attended by serious policy changes. The elephant in the chapel is that single women don’t necessarily stay single. Their numbers have grown largely because of marrying later, not ditching the institution. In fact, the option to wait, or totally opt out, may make marriage look better than ever. Traister (a married woman) doesn’t let that ruin her argument. Even if their singledom is transient, unmarried women “are taking up space in a world that was not built for them”–and they’re ready to rebuild it. Society has always shaped itself by responding to circumstances. Proof: Stephanie Coontz’s insightful _The Way We Never Were_ (1992), reissued with new material. The 1950s family we so often idealize was, Coontz explains, an invention of the post–World War II economy. It was also “the most atypical family system in American history.” Today delaying marriage is likewise what Coontz would call a “rational response” to our situation. 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