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Don’t call me a young woman;
it’s not a compliment or courtesy
but rather a grating discourtesy.
Being old is a hard won achievement
not something to be brushed aside
treated as infirmity or ugliness
or apologized away by ‘young woman’.
(Ruth Harriet Jacobs, 1997, p.8)
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© 2007 Marie Y. Savundranayagam, Ellen Bouchard Ryan and Mary Lee Hummert
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Savundranayagam, M.Y., Ryan, E.B., Hummert, M.L. (2007). Communication, Health and Ageing: Promoting Empowerment. In: Ann, W., Bernadette, M.W., Cindy, G. (eds) Language, Discourse and Social Psychology. Palgrave Advances in Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206168_4
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