Posted On: October 14th 2026, 08:02 pm
In the late 1800s, women wrote thousands of letters to a woman they had never met.
Her name was Lydia Pinkham.
She sold a herbal tonic for women’s health. But something else happened along the way.
Women began writing to her about the things they struggled to discuss openly.
Painful periods. Infertility. Menopause. Intimate worries.
Her remedies were far from modern medicine. But she understood something important.
Women wanted to talk. They just needed someone who would listen.
Nearly 150 years later, perhaps that hasn’t changed as much as we’d like to think.
Are there still things women find difficult to talk about?
Love Being a Woman.
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