This postmenopausal grandmother is happy to see that Taylor Swift, self-professed childless cat lady, has declared her intention of voting for Kamala Harris.

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We’ve been given this one life and intend to enjoy it to the fullest now that we’ve been liberated from the burden of childbearing, childrearing, and child caring — caring for and rearing everyone around us #postmenopausalwomen

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Becoming an “Old” Woman is Liberating - My Menopause Brain - Medium

TikTok’s “demure and mindful” trend riles me. I grit my teeth in frustration when I see women profess how demure, mindful, and modest they are. Yes, I know it’s all good fun. I know who started it…

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More about #Roman Priestesses

An ancient priesthood of #Hera at Olympia involved “sixteen elderly women” (Connelly, 45), based on a “board of #FemaleElders once chosen from sixteen cities” (Connelly, 45) who negotiated “#peace between two cities’ (Connelly, 45) who had been at war.
 
“Priestesses seem to have initiated and negotiated #laws, #amendments, and penalties for transgressions” (Connelly, 214). Some priestesses wielded enormous influence: the Pythia of Delphi “could move scores of people to action” (Connelly, 219), and a #Pythia “is credited with having provided #Lykourgos with the #Spartan system of government”.

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Estrogen receptor in the heart found to regulate obesity in postmenopausal women

Estrogen is known to play an important role in the protection of women's hearts, but once women are postmenopausal and estrogen levels drop, they are at an increased risk of a number of diseases and conditions, including heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

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In postmenopausal women, who is more prone to recurrent UTIs? Bladder bacteria may be an indicator

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have identified specific bacteria in the bladder that may indicate which postmenopausal women are more susceptible to recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), and they found that estrogen may play a role in reducing that susceptibility.

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