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Too Glam to Give a Damn

The funny, unfiltered side of getting older — from women who've earned every laugh line and refuse to Botox the stories out of them.

The Editors·4 min read

There is a specific freedom that arrives with age, and it is this: you stop caring what strangers think, and you get most of your caring capacity back to spend on things that are actually fun. It's like recovering a limb you forgot you had.

You will say the quiet part out loud now. You will leave the party when you want to leave the party. You will return the soup. You will, on occasion, be described as "a lot," and you will take it as the compliment it clearly is.

Well-behaved women rarely make history. We prefer the ones who make an entrance.

Getting older is not a tragedy that happens to you. It's a promotion. The pay is confidence, the perk is perspective, and the dress code is whatever you want. Laugh loudly. You've earned the acoustics.