No Woman Retires Elegantly
We Are All Helen Gurley Brown, Minus the Money
The concept of “retirement” is as foreign to me as size zero. I’m a young boomer who came of age in the midst of the Women’s Movement. Real women, I was taught, work. Although I never supported burning a perfectly good bra or embraced the body hair nature so generously gave me, I did internalize the message of the early movement: Equality means earning your own keep. Period. Helen Gurley Brown (Google her) had it all. Why couldn’t I?
Of course, as bleary-eyed boomer women now know, having it all is …
