Thanks to Ruth Harriet Jacobs, lately I’ve been thinking about that question. Who is Ruth Harriet Jacobs, you ask? She’s one of the women I’m profiling in my book about women growing older in the generations before the Baby Boom.
“The hey-day of woman’s life”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the journey toward your personal heyday
Ever wonder why I call it Heyday Coaching. It comes from a quote from one of my heroes, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who said, “Fifty, not fifteen, is the heyday of woman’s life, then the forces hitherto finding an outlet in flirtations, courtship, conjugal and maternal love, are garnered in the brain to find expression in intellectual achievements, in spiritual friendships and beautiful thoughts, in music, poetry, and art. It never is too late to try what we may do.”