Just because you’re a woman over 50 doesn’t mean you have it all figured out. In many cases, it’s to the contrary. Suzanne Braun Levine writes of the “Fertile Void,” that time in a woman’s life between first and second adulthood when every part of her reality seems to be in flux. Her mindset is [...]
As women over 50, we’re well aware this age is a time of change. Changing hormones, relationships, careers, and what we want/need at this time in our lives interconnect to push us forward in new—and sometimes challenging—directions. Suzanne Braun Levine, longtime managing editor of Ms. magazine and author of several books for women over 50, [...]
As women over fifty, we’re already aware that one of the greatest gifts of the aging process is that life takes on a richer, deeper meaning. Suzanne Braun Levine, founding editor of Ms. magazine, has been putting her well-honed skills of observation to work and reflecting back to us how profoundly we change in her [...]
Women over 50 have wrestled with a lifetime of mixed messages. In our formative years we were taught the virtues of adhering to the1950’s & early ‘60’s standards of conformity. That meant being “ladylike” and fashioning our futures based on the June Cleaver/Donna Read models of matrimonial bliss. But when the late ‘60s/early ‘70s rolled [...]
Back in the mid-70s a friend called to complain about her husband. Nothing remarkable about that—but this particular phone call stuck with me. My friend’s husband, a frequent business traveler, had often left her alone to manage their four kids, the dog, the shopping, cooking, cleaning, and chauffeuring for days on end. She rarely complained. [...]
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