Let’s get one thing straight: menopause is not a catastrophe. It is not a crisis, nor is it a tragedy to be endured. It is a transition as inevitable as the setting sun, as natural as the changing of the seasons. And yet, for reasons both cultural and personal, many…
The great feminist Simone de Beauvoir once remarked, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” I would take that a step further and say, One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman again at menopause. And yet, we live in a culture that would rather pretend that…