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Books aimed at older women treat them as though they had no history or inner life.
Drawn from what Lyndsey Stonebridge said
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- Lyndsey Stonebridge British literary scholar and historian of ideas
books targeting older women conspicuously treat us as though we're stupid, as though our biological and social lives are all we have.* As though we have neither history or interiority.
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