This is excerpted from Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth. She talks about the shift in thinking women have to make as we age.
"You could see the signs of female aging as diseased. Or you could see that if a woman is healthy she lives to grow old; as she thrives, she reacts and speaks and shows emotion, and grows into her face. Lines trace her thoughts and radiate from the corners of her eyes after decades of laughter...You could call the lines a network of 'serious lesions', or you could see that in a precise calligraphy, thought has etched marks of concentration between her brows, and drawn across her forehead the horizontal creases of surprise, delight, compassion and good talk...The darkening under her eyes, the weight of her lids, their minute cross-hatching, reveal that what she has been part of has left in her its complexity and richness. She is darker, stronger, looser, tougher, sexier. The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold."
What a beautiful portrait of a mature woman.
Here's to all of us getting better and better with age!
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