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Stella Fosse

Book Club Reading Guide for Aphrodite’s Pen

Reading Guide for Aphrodite’s Pen Download PDF Version In the Introduction to Aphrodite’s Pen, Stella says it is important for older women to write erotica as a way to combat ageism.  Do you agree or disagree with the author on

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Stella Fosse

See It Then Be It

See It Then Be It Geena Davis did not worry about all those stories of movie roles drying up for women in their forties, until it was her turn. After making a movie every year throughout her career, and starring

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Stella Fosse

Power and Madam Pelosi

Power and Madam Pelosi We watched with interest as Nancy Pelosi fought to regain her role as House  Speaker when the Democrats took the House after the November 2018 election. Congresswoman Pelosi is part of a generation of older leaders

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Stella Fosse

A Sex Goddess for Older Women

The world is made of stories, not atoms. – Muriel Rukeyser Myths are Ideas and stories and images that shape how we see the world. Celebrating and creating myth is one way to see and be seen. A Sex Goddess

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Stella Fosse

Making Women Visible After Midlife

Making Women Visible After Midlife The anthropologist Margaret Mead married a series of men, each one a researcher about to travel to a place she wanted to study. At the end of an assignment, she divorced and married anew. An

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