Barb Stone Bakstad on the Recalibration of Midlife: “Champagne Is Still Good”
"Don't buy into it. Keep eating the butter.”
Christine Price on Perimenopause and Embracing Her Weird
“And even though it was milder than my mother’s generation, there was still very much this trajectory: then you find a partner, you get married, you get a house, you have children. …I was sold something that I don’t know I would buy again, in certain parts.”
Ellen Wong Hit Perimenopause and Started Having Fun
“To die small deaths. Each one has forced me to confront the same two questions – Who are you, and how do you value yourself now?”
Jessie Harrold on Perimenopause & the Biology of Fewer Fucks
“Let us not turn perimenopause into yet another way women can optimize for some kind of ideal.”
Dionne Grayman: Risk-Excitement and the Third Adolescence
“No one is better at being audacious than a woman in perimenopause and menopause, because the hot flashes are a different level of diabolical.”
Gris Alves: The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Her Was Getting Older
“I didn't really get the perimenopause. But post menopause? Oh, girl.”
Carmen Spagnola: I've Never Met Me at a Better Time
“I love my rage and that I have the power to terrify and terrorize men. I adore the freedom that comes from being so much further removed from the male gaze and internalized patriarchy. The me that has this many years under her belt of de-centering men and beauty ideals and youth is more me than I’ve ever felt. I’ve never met me at a better time in my life.”
Randy Lee Cutler: Menopause and Making the Familiar Strange
“There were some challenges during perimenopause but I would say that growth and liberation definitely came with menopause. Its sounds like a cliche but I stopped caring what other people think of me. I feel like I came more into my own and just accepted myself. I also believe that I became an even better person, friend, teacher and artist.”