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Can Menopause Make You a Better Writer?

As part of our Poetry Queries series, Helen Ivory discusses whether menopause can make you a better writer. Menopause is still often seen as a taboo topic. How can writing about this life transition help women reclaim their voices?  I believe that women’s voices are repressed their whole lives in one way or another.  From childhood, girls are encouraged to be nice, to use…

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