It’s an era of extremes: Botoxed “gargoyles” and cougars, or eccentric grandmothers and kooky matrons. Writer Charlotte Druckman muses on her struggle to find older women who are inspiring:
“I’d begun to despair of ever having role models. And then Penny Martin—the editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman, that “fabulous biannual magazine for modern women of style and purpose”—put the timeless, tasteful, and outspoken eighty-six-year-old Dame Angela Lansbury on the cover of the 2012 Autumn/Winter issue. ”
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