Janny Adkins, author of The Mildlife Woman: A Call to Authenticity, said it best:
"Society and therefore, women have viewed this period of a woman’s life as a potential downward spiral of fading productivity, usefulness, influence, power, and beauty. Physical beauty is often defined as youthfulness, slenderness, naivete, and innocence. Our society is prejudiced against aging in general, and doubles that prejudice toward the idea that a middle-aged or mature woman is a vital, beautiful, powerful trustee of our society."
This blog will consist of thoughts, mullings, considerations --and where appropriate, cited quotations-- on the Aging Woman. To put it briefly, my position is one of Anti-Anti-Aging. Despite a society that tends to value a woman by the smoothness of her skin, I --and an ever-growing contingent of other women (and men)-- are beginning to question this... more, to challenge it.
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