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Gwyneth Paltrow says she is looking forward to her "crone" years.
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Gwyneth Paltrow says she is looking forward to her "crone" years.

What is she talking about?

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Kirsten Powers
Oct 03, 2023
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Gwyneth Paltrow says she is looking forward to her "crone" years.
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The New York Times ran a Gwyneth Paltrow profile yesterday that covered all sorts of terrain, but what caught my eye was this:

As for a life post-Goop, she wants to embrace what she calls her “crone” years, “this very real sort of sweetness that I’m starting to feel about the back part of life.”

When most people think of the word “crone,” they consider it a derogatory term. They imagine the wicked queen who appears with gnarled hands and a misshapen face to tempt Snow White with a poisoned apple.

But that is not the word's original meaning.

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