
Late Bloomers
TED Radio Hour
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Are You a Late Bloomer?
I don't think we can like discount the influence of the patriarchy. These ideas have been part of society for hundreds of years. And they're hard to overcome on our own, especially when it feels like the messaging all around us is do things in a certain way and be on a certain path. I had no clue how much of that I had just accepted as the norm, accepted as reality. For me, there was no role model of like the successful older single woman who had just said, you know what, I'm not interested in this.
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