By Jessica
In our culture, as women, we are taught that our value declines as we age.
It’s an old idea, leftover from earlier days, but it still lingers. It’s the underlying assumption that a woman’s value is in our ability to have children.
This outdated concept has been tied to the idea of what’s considered attractive, what’s considered appealing, and what’s valuable about us as women.
According to magazines and most mainstream advertising, a woman is valuable if she’s dewy, symmetrical, thin, but still curvy, and smooth—all things that signify youth and being a good age to have babies.
But as we all know, women are valuable for so much more than our capacity to have children.
We are valuable for the ideas we bring to the table, the love and nurturing we give to our families, our laughter and connection with friends, our leadership and innovation, our creativity, our vision—and all that value grows and deepens as we age.