Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.
Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence.
(n.) The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.
Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county...
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female hu...
No, we’re not getting married, I told my mother on the phone when she asked. He’s going to California and I’m staying here. Usually she doesn't phone. Usually she just does things like send me notes w...
She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime. ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that...
On a planet where for thousands of years, even today, a woman's worth has been judged exclusively by the productivity of her womb, what the hell is the point of a barren woman?