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Conversations with women (over 40): Taffy Brodesser-Akner, 48
"I can't believe how everybody taught me to be afraid of middle age. I wish I could have started in it. My whole life would have been so much better."
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Conversations with women (over 40): Maggie Smith, 47
"We think of what happens in midlife as a crisis, but I think it's the opposite, more of a recovery or a return... It's like a reappearing act."
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Conversations with women (over 40): Isabel Allende, 81
"You better train because old age is not for sissies. Be out there, work, be of service, be active, be curious, have purpose, engage, love, take risks…
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Conversations with women (over 40): Miranda July, 50
"Ageing is much wilder and more intense and psychedelic than I expected. My life changed in ways that my thirtysomething self would delight in, would…
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Conversations with women (over 40): author Helen Garner, 81
"I don’t give a shit about the erotic gaze. What I'm interested in is the human contact gaze."
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Conversations with women (over 40): no longer Accidental Icon, Lyn Slater
"When you come to my age, at 70, the question is, where do you want to spend your money and your labour? And is it really on your appearance?"
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An intro to The Shift with Sam Baker podcast
Listen now | If you're longing to hear the voices and experiences of women over 40, look no further
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What I learnt from talking to a 102-year-old woman
Ageing into health, learning from the moment you're in, the power of femifesting… come spend an hour with the wisest woman I know, Dr Gladys McGarey
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Conversations with women (over 40): Anna Murphy
Meet a woman as gobby as I am about ageing however you bloody well want!
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Conversations with women (over 40): Barbara Kingsolver
The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Demon Copperhead talks discovering she was a “hillbilly”, finding love second time around and why life gets better…
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Conversations with women (over 40): Abi Morgan
The Emmy-winning screenwriter of The Iron Lady and The Split, on love, trauma and finding herself and her family, reluctantly, centre stage
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Conversations with women (over 40): Katherine May
The bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment, talks burnout, meaning-making, her midlife autism diagnosis and why she believes we’re suffering…
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