Is it my fertility that is leaving me?

Is it my womanhood?

Or is it really neither?

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And yet that power that I was told I must use was not used.

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I can feel my body’s ability to make a child draining out of me, she said.

And if you’re not careful, you actually think it’s true.

Any of those things.

This isn’t the first time Ellis Ross has delivered sound truths about being a woman.

I love getting older.

I look at women who are steps ahead of me and see so much beauty and wisdom in them.

Theres nothing wrong with being young.

There are so many wonderful parts of that.

But trying to stay that way, I just never understood.

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