Women are tired of performing for the male gaze and appealing to beauty standards. The shifting of appearance and body image that occurs as women age is often disorienting and uncomfortable to ...

The only person women owe anything to is themselves. Many women are pressured — at school, in their relationships, with family members, and in the workplace — to be the most agreeable version of ...

After decades of stressing over appearances, opinions, and perfection, something magical happens around age 60 – people ...

Getting older isn't about fading; it's about refining. For many women, hitting their 40s, 50s, and beyond brings an unexpected and incredibly liberating gift: the mental freedom to stop caring about ...

I didn’t wake up one day magically cured of caring what people thought. As someone who spent most of her life trying to be agreeable, helpful, and conflict-free, the idea of “letting go” felt both ...

Sometime in the early aughts, the comedian Amy Poehler made a vulgar joke while sitting in the Saturday Night Live writers’ room waiting for a midweek read-through to begin. As detailed in Tina Fey’s ...