Feminists

but being invisible to the type of lowlife male who is constantly trying to demand you smile, talk to him and eventually spread your legs for him is definitely freeing. It's beautiful to have all that background noise suddenly disappear, to have walking down the block be just a method of getting where you need to go instead of having it be a gauntlet of unwanted, intrusive men to run.

It's also nice to be able to thumb our noses at the fertility aisle in the supermarket.

Please let your sisters know that the one eye job or skin tightening might be good for their self esteem but that it's only a delaying tactic and that age will keep showing up elsewhere. Show them a picture of poor Meg Ryan as a caution about what happens to us when we try to hang onto youth too long.

Our culture doesn't value us except as baby sitters, and that's too bad. However, getting rid of a lot of pests is definitely compensation for getting older and looking it.