Dilek Sayedahmed, PhD > Recent Status Updates

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Far more extensive than the hard sense of loss suffered during menopause (which, with increased longevity, tends to arrive later and later) is the depression about aging, which may not be set off by any real event in a woman's life, but is a recurrent state of "possession" of her imagination, ordained by society—that is, ordained by the way this society limits how women feel free to imag ine themselves.

People let the direct awareness they have of their needs, of what really gives them pleasure, be overruled by commercialized images of happiness and personal well-being, and, in this imagery designed to stimulate ever more avid levels of consumption, the most popular metaphor for happiness is "youth."

"Mr.," a cover from infancy to senility, precisely exempts men from the stigma that attaches to any woman, no longer young, who is still "Miss." (That women are divided into "Miss" and 'Mrs." which calls unrelenting attention to the situation of each woman with respect to marriage, reflects the belief that being single or married is much more decisive for a woman than it is for a man.)

“Far more extensive than the hard sense of loss suffered during menopause is the depression about aging, which may not be set off by any real event in a woman's life, but is a recurrent state of "possession" of her imagination, ordained by society— that is, ordained by the way this society limits how women feel free to imag ine themselves.” 👌🏾

Holy shit. Catton is not fucking around with the character development in this mindfuck of a thriller. My goodness.