The last climacteric

Women are all change as you know, we change and change and change; we have have 7 climacterics in our lives and I am in the last one, well advanced in the last one; and in the last climacteric, you're the sleepless people, you're the guardians, you're the watchers on the housetop, and that's what you do.           Germaine Greer, BBC Rebels of Oz