Women's Things: Writing from Mid-Life and Menopause

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LEANNE MODEN

Ageing I am more experienced now: the years have been unkind. It is impossible for me to say I am wiser, stronger, more resilient, when I know in my heart I am a shadow of what came before. Let it never be said that I was defiant in the face of convention. When asked to bite my tongue, lower my head, I did what was expected of me. After all this time, I cannot say I am finally content. I am finally content. After all this time, I cannot say I did what was expected of me. When asked to bite my tongue, lower my head, I was defiant in the face of convention. Let it never be said that I am a shadow of what came before when I know in my heart I am wiser, stronger, more resilient. It is impossible for me to say the years have been unkind: I am more experienced now.

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Acknowledgements

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pages 63-64

Writers’ Biographies

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pages 59-61

Workshop Facilitators and Editors

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Nicky Tullett Menopausal Metaphors

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Velcro

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Teika Marija Smits Pomegranate

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The Answer

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Defiantly Woman

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Cindy Rossiter Wild Thing

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Abigail Elizabeth Ottley Menopause is Liver and Onions

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Gail Marie Mitchell Charm for Menopause

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Recycling

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pages 46-47

Ageing

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Pride of Place

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Cathy Meadows Angry? ... Me?

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pages 42-43

Immovable Barriers

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Horses for Courses – A Letter to my Younger Self

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pages 37-38

Fiona Linday The Pleasures of Puberty, Not

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Carolyn Howard Rewilding

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Sarah Johnson The Menopause Is

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A Charm for Those Desiring Both Vim and Vigour

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The Bicycle

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Growing Old

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pages 29-30

Menopause Is

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Pippa Hennessy Today I Am

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In a Haze

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Dawn Hartley ‘Women’s Things

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Menopause & Me

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Janey Harvey Transition

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pages 25-26

The Lost Woman

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Mary Gibson The Lost Girl

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Dear Sarah 1984

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Sarah Dale The Opposite of Good

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Gran in her Bed

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Introduction

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The River

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After the Ghost Babies have Gone

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Anna Cotton Growing Out

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I am the Jam

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Donna Canale The Usual

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