We’re witnessing generations of women breaking cycles in real time. Teen girls are being given tools to delay motherhood and older women are embracing it when they’re ready. Both ends of that spectrum are worth celebrating. There’s also something beautifully radical about women
Nothing inspires more optimism in me than people who not only embrace the season they’re in but make the most out of it. No comparing their current season to how “things were so much better back then”, only enjoying the one they’re in.
A fun part of getting older as a woman is hitting the age these men were when they knew you and your friends and realizing how childlike and fragile girls that age seem to you now. Lends a special horror to it.
Going after education/arts is famously one of the biggest red flags in governance and a sign of fascism, like it’s not even hard to see where this is going