Does a Woman’s Worth Decrease the Older She Gets?

Our society may reward youth, but at forty-nine years old, I feel more “worthy” than ever.

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A man once told me that a woman’s worth decreases the older she becomes. Come forty, she no longer wields the same power she did at twenty-five. Without her youthful beauty, men no longer compete for her attention. Her worth…