What's got my attention this week #58

Links and recs to get you through the weekend

Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder, second right) hits middle-age in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. (I may well be the only one who cares about this!)

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Jennifer Weiner

reckons we owe Shannen Doherty (who died this week, aged 53) an apology. In fact, we owe that apology to all women who get labelled “difficult” at the start of their career.
• What I learned about grief from reading other women’s diaries. Heart-rending.
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Anne Helen Petersen

is not the only one who’s ageing into athleticism.
• The power of shutting up. (Even briefly.)
• After my piece last week about the trouble with talking about money,

Jennie Godfrey

wrote this lovely piece about the myth of financial security.