"When I told my friends I was writing a book on older women like us,
they immediately protested, "I am not old." What they meant was that
they didn't act or feel like the cultural stereotypes of women their
age. Old meant bossy, useless, unhappy and in the way. Our country's
ideas about old women are so toxic that almost no one, no matter her
age, will admit she is old." Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist and
the celebrated author of Reviving Ophelia delves into the meaningful
riches available to women as they age, counter to what mainstream
cultural narrative suggests.
http://www.dailygood.org/story/2236/the-joy-of-being-a-woman-in-her-seventies-mary-pipher/
