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My mother was completely finished with menopause by the time she was forty-four. At least I think she was; Mom had an aversion to admitting that anything was not perfect. When my aunt found her lying prone on the living room sofa with a wet dishtowel draped over her head, Mom insisted that she wasn’t going through "the changes" more »

There is evidence to show that more young women were encouraged by the presidential race of Hillary Clinton than by the vice-presidential bid of Sarah Palin and that the effort of both women were more encouraging than discouraging to their belief that there would be a woman president in their lifetimes more »

Coontz set out to write about a generation of intelligent, well-educated women who had been marginalized by their own society. She wanted to understand how being confined to the home had undermined their sense of self and self-worth, until Friedan told them about "the problem that has no name." more »

My friend Jane could teach PhD classes in minimalism. You can actually walk into Jane’s closets — and they’re not walk-in closets. Once she asked if I had an extra postage stamp. I tried to give her two. "No" she said, "I need only one right now."I suggested she might have something else to mail in a couple of days. "Then I’ll go to the post office, I don’t want the clutter" more »