Désirée Nick: Alte weiße Frau-Warum Falten kein Knick im Lebenslauf sind

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Désirée Nick - OLD WHITE WOMAN
Why wrinkles are not a kink in the life course - The Anti-Ageism Book.

How women fight back against ageism:
Désirée Nick, the Joan of Arc of the Golden Girls shows how it's done.

While "old wise men" are still allowed to give their two cents on everything, our society consistently pushes women over a certain age into the sidelines. Then they are supposed to shut up, become as invisible as possible and accept any old joke, no matter how bad.
That has to stop! As usual, satirist and bestselling author Désirée Nick combines wit and wisdom to provide the best entertainment. Whether it's sex, motherhood, feminism, social media or work: as personal as she is brilliant, she shows where age discrimination lurks for women in everyday life and how we can defend ourselves against it. A manifesto for all those over 40 who plan to make the next 60
years the best of their lives!

As celebrated as she is feared: The satirist, best-selling author, actress and entertainer La Nick is considered "the finest and meanest thing German stages have to offer" (F.A.Z.).

Désirée Nick has been many things in her life: singer, dancer, jungle queen, actress,
podcaster and a regular source of annoyance for jokers. There's just one thing she's never been: quiet. And so she finds it
difficult with the role that our society wants to impose on women over a certain age:
That of a silent observer. That's why, after numerous bestsellers such as "Is there life after fifty?", "No is the new yes" and "The varnish stays on", she is now presenting her most personal book to date - and a long overdue outcry against age discrimination.

"We're still at the point where I'm asked in interviews - even by young female editors - 'How long do you actually want to do this?'
I rather wonder how much longer you will have to justify yourself as a woman for being in the middle of life and not surrendering to general decay." Désirée Nick

"If you're oversensitive as a woman, you basically have a bad hand. That's what evolution has given us. Over the centuries, women have come to terms with the fact that after menopause they have to shut up or make themselves useful as grannies for the rough stuff. Women are used to disrespect. That's probably why we don't take to the streets just because someone belittles us as an 'old white woman'. We don't sit on the boards of the power centers, protected by rope lines and alliances of men, like the old white men. (...) we are discredited for our diminishing attractiveness as a mother animal alone, and in a much more dishonorable way than the old white man would ever be expected to do." Désirée Nick