"I've had a very good relationship with my mother, but there's a whole generation of Spanish women who have struggled: very strong fighting figures who carry their families. These women are now in their 80s and feel that life has been unfair to them; they don't know how to grow old and how to be happy old ladies."
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On the dilemmas faced by generations of Spanish women in “Pedro Almodóvar on Aging, Mom and 'Pain and Glory'” in AARP Magazine (2019 Oct 4)
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