The Plight of Women After A Certain Age

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It’s just the plight of women after a certain age. No one can see you. Sometimes I find myself daydreaming about that girl I used to be, how I could always get a table in a busy restaurant. I could raise my hand on a street corner in New York in the pouring rain and get a taxi.” She shook her head at such an impossible memory. “That’s just gone now.“…That was when I came to the conclusion that feeling invisible was something that could be talked about for hours on end but being invisible was a conversational no-man’s-land.

In truth, I thought I looked good. I had lost some weight since becoming invisible. Food was less interesting when no one could see you eat it.

Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray

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