Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
So few grown women like their lives.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.
As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
I think older women still have a full life.
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