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When it comes to prejudice, ageism is the most stupid
It also remains the last acceptable one.
- by Jane Caro
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Here’s what I learnt after attending my school reunion
A night at my 50-year school reunion reminds me what really matters in life.
- by Jane Caro
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I’m attending my 50-year school reunion. This is what I’m expecting it to teach me
Yes, we get fatter, thinner, greyer, wrinklier and either balder or hairier or both, but I bet my old classmates remain essentially the individuals I remember.
- by Jane Caro
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Sunday Life
Where do all the bookish kids go if their school doesn’t have a library?
They need a retreat to the quiet world of imagination sometimes, away from the hurly-burly of the playground.
- by Jane Caro
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Boomers are afraid to sell the family home and downsize. Can you blame us?
Until I sat filling yet another box with the contents of yet another bookshelf, it had not struck me that my life now is about getting smaller.
- by Jane Caro
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Sunday Life
Women have imagined a different life for themselves. Eventually, so will men
Women have discovered both their potential and their authentic selves over the past 65 years. I expect the next 65 will be about men doing the same.
- by Jane Caro
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I’ve been with my husband for 48 years and I still find him drop-dead gorgeous
This is the secret to a love that’s lasted almost half a century.
- by Jane Caro
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The hardest thing about my new car had nothing to do with it being electric
I’ve owned just four cars in 26 years. My leap into the future of motoring was a big one.
- by Jane Caro
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Sunday Life
Much as you want us to, older women do not become merely an audience for the young
We’re happy to cheer you on, and we love and admire you very much, but we remain stubbornly, colourfully, assertively at the centre of our own lives.
- by Jane Caro
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Sunday Life
Giving a speech can be paralysing for many. This is my one tip to surviving it
Just one friendly face is all that it takes to inspire confidence.
- by Jane Caro
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Sunday Life
Now that we understand coercive control, is it time to question ‘romantic love’?
If you ever feel you are being swept off your feet – run! There is no more vulnerable place than to have your feet dangling in mid-air.
- by Jane Caro
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