Women and Ageism - Are You Proud of Your Age?

"I love the age question. I love topics that make people squirm. And I think it's fascinating the lengths that some women, and many men, will go through to deny that they are -- gasp! -- actually getting older. "She's old, though, isn't she?" a young girl asked me with the same inflection that she might have voiced, "Oh, but she had a terrible accident, didn't she?" about one of the most power ...