I Can’t Wait to Be an Old Crone

Let’s reframe how we think about getting old

Photo by Eduardo Barrios on Unsplash

The word Crone has been a term of abuse for old women for at least 700 years. It comes to us from a combination of European languages, all making reference to rotting, dead flesh.

The etymology of this word highlights what we have thought of old women for centuries. We equate them with a carcass, a drain on society, past their use-by…