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A GLORIOUS BROAD IS...

A Glorious Broad refuses to accept any kind of “expiration” date.

A Glorious Broad does not aspire to “self acceptance.” She has already arrived at it.

Her life is full of force and fierce. And yet she continues to create feisty, fiery experiences.

It’s about constant reinvention.

Passion is her key.

Her inherent joy and a curiosity about the world keeps her glowing and growing.

She lives with tenacity.

For her Glorious is an action. Glorious is an attitude. Glorious is a state of mind.

And how old is a glorious broad? Well here’s what she has to say about that:

FU_AGE,

Love,
Glorious Broad

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A coupla Glorious Broads - and one Brawn - enjoying our beautiful town and SUN! Happy Sunday!

#sunday #gloriousbroads #harlem #sun #friendsforever #newyork #sun

I loved her then. I’m loving her now! Disco lover Glorious Broad Patti Hansen working the magic at #michaelkors - this suit those shoes - we’ve been there!

#nyfw #pattihansen #studio54 #disco

I’m with her. You?

#gloriousbroads #sexlife #after50 #after60 #FU_age #badass #lifeforce

Photo @leah.run

A picture is worth ... Nicked from @feministabulous
#gloriousbroads #power #alexandriaocasiocortez #stateoftheunion

Killed it! Glorious Stacy Abrams!
#wcw #stacyabrams #stateoftheunion #democraticresponse #gloriousbroads

In just three hours ... Nicked from @snackie_o
#dumptrump #stateoftheunion

Glorious surprise when a “caller” as Blanche would say - brings over roses after date. Loved his line “beats a text” - and it does - it definitely does. A little romance works wonders - does it not?

#gloriousbroads #flowers #romance #gloriousbrawn

GLORIOUS!

#solar #sun #environment #sunday #miracle #glorious #winter

I always felt I would live out my final years in Provincetown. At 19, I was smitten by all things Ptown — the combo of ye olde new england Portuguese fishing village at the end of the world — the rollicking gay night life — best drag acts — anywhere — beautiful beefcake boys, meat racks, meatier lesbians, and the naughty drunken past of Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer marking their territory — like a dog. And the beauty — the beaches, the smells, the lighting — oh the lighting — of P-town. It made me misty. Still makes me misty.
I saw myself with a black lab — or maybe buff (!) colored and some kind of partner. Maybe a big, burly Gertrude Stein type, and I would allow her to mother me, to love me, to cook for me (I know, Alice did all that – but these are my daydreams.) These last four summers, I’ve been going back to Ptown, and, despite a few husbands and countless male lovers, my dream of being the eccentric ole girl on Provincetown Beach persists— dog in tow, Gertrude baking muffins. I see me writing. I see me going to readings with Eileen Myles (would she give me a toss when we are both 80?), and earnest artist chats with Michael Cunningham — you know — the whole package.
Back in New York, I forget about my fantasy. It is, after all, two decades away.
Last night, I dropped by the always delicious @debrarapoport, who lives in the hood, as she packed for a trip to Mexico. I am a notepad girl, and when you visit Debra, you just leave out your god damn pad and pen ... she says sooo many “you must see, did you know, are you aware of ...” I am scribbling away over a cup of tea, when she tells me that the west village wonder, 98-year-old Ilona @ilonaroycesmithkin, left the village and has moved to live in Provincetown. What stunned me was— I hadn’t really noticed this magical creature was gone — she was simply a presence that vanished. POOF. Like so many landmarks in this fading neighborhood. No more.
I cried all the way home, tears turning to icicles — and pondered my ideal future that Ilona is now living, painting, writing, being. I hope she has a Gertrude.
Photo @advancedstyle #provincetown #gay #fearless

I love a gutsy Broad. A ballsy Broad. A brazen Broad.
And that in-your-face gumption is what drew me to Liz White.
We met at The New Old Age Atlantic’s conference two years ago -- her speech knocked me flat.
Liz talked about finding herself in her mid 50s and jobless — after havin' a HELLUVA career — she was unable to “recoop” — the way we ALL expect to “recoop” — or when your last job “restructures” — aka, FIRES YOUR ASS.
Sound familiar??? She suffered: shame, sadness, shock — and the unending grind of being BROKE AF.
And then she said ENOUGH. I’m sick of acting like everything is normal. Cause everything AIN’T normal. I’m tired of faking it … I’m coming clean.
So she talked about it. She created groups about it …
And she wrote about it.
She self-published her book, 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal, got covered by PBS, did her TEDTalk ... Her genius PR lady? That would be Liz White. Her marketing guru — also Liz White.
And her second edition will be published by Simon & Schuster, thank you very much.
Now, that’s a ballsy broad who goes AGAINST the rules — and made it work for her — and rocks a gorge diamond nose ring, fyi.
My glorious #WCW for the day

#fearless #brazen #powerwomen #gloriousbroads #secondcareer #badass
#55andfakingnormal #ageism #agediscrimination

The most delicious obituary I have read in a very very long time. A true Glorious Broad who makes me only aspire to have something like this as the opening for my "final page” — minus the english bit: "Diana Athill, an Englishwoman who wrote a series of critically lauded memoirs chronicling her romantic and sexual liaisons over much of the 20th century, but who attained international literary celebrity in her 90s with the publication of an installment about the waning of desire, died on Wednesday in London. She was 101.” Wow.

My favorite line, however, was:
Jenny Diski reviewed the volume, "Somewhere Toward the End” with:
“Such a book is in itself a rare enough thing, but a book about old age written by a woman with a cold eye for reality and no time for sentimental lies is as rare as — well, as rare as a thoughtful discussion about a woman’s sexuality after the age of 60.” That was written in 2008.

Ah, those days are a changin’ — I may have started with the the book DUMPED and lots of sex pieces for HuffPost and AARP, but I see a meaty memoir in my very very very near future churning ... Thanks to you, Glorious Diana Athill

#glorousbroads #obituaryobsessed #sexover50 #sexover60 #brazen #womenwriters #memoirs #fu_age

We are so having a Glorious Power Nancy moment!!! Score: Nancy 3, Trump 0

Yesssssss

#nancypelosi #governmentshutdown #nocave #womanpower #gloriousbroads #ladyboss

So fun to attend the Advanced Love book party last night. Beyond inspiring to see all these fabulously coifed couples still in love and some lust after 40 some odd years! I’ll take 10. Here’s the glorious Capece @capreceannjackson, in a head gear made of styrofoam plates and wire - that rocked!
#advancedstyle #advancedlove #gloriousbroads #love #aboutlastnight

It could be worse New Yorkers. It could be. Seems too early to be dreaming of Glorious. summer ... #tbt #winterblues #summer #newyorkweather #newyorkcity

I love these young Glorious Broads that come into my life. They work with me, we bond, they fly the nest and often pals forever more. This from the Botticelli-like Maya @tajch_ "Hey I realized I didn’t tell you a couple of things that I really want to. You really helped with my confidence and showed me how to be really fucking glorious. But I’m mostly leaving feeling grateful to have met you and appreciating in a new way where I am in the present moment — not wanting to be younger, not wanting to be older. Just content. ☺️" Swoon to these young powers – they will not put up with the shit our generation did … FLY!

#powergirl #gloriousbroads #power #botticelli #fearless

IT TOOK A VILLAGE: Here MLK is with Coretta Scott King and his mother, Alberta Williams. But there were many unsung women activists behind him:
Daisy Bates
Ella Barker
Septima Poinsetta Clark
Diane Nash
Fannie Lou Hamer
Gloria Richardson
Amelia Boynton Robinson
Anna Arnold Hedgeman

We need this unity now!

So many things to be fighting for - here’s one of mine. March!!! #gloriousbroads #womensmarch #womensrights #power