This week on Dropping In, from the author of "A Delightful Little Book on Aging" Stephanie Raffleock joins us with her new book "Creatrix Rising" . Raffelock lays out—through personal stories and essays—the highlights of the past fifty years, in which women have gone from a quiet strength to a resounding voice. Over time, maiden, mother, and crone have represented the three stages assigned to a woman’s life cycle – the limiting categories of both ancient and modern (neo-pagan) mythology. None of us has ever truly fit the old-crone image, and for today’s midlife women, a new archetype is being
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