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" The Fertile Void is a necessary, albeit bewildering, hiatus. Paradoxically, as Rubenfeld observed in her book The Listening Hand, it is “a place of change in which one sometimes feels ‘stuck.’” For a proactive woman, the response to being “stuck” is to expend more energy, make more lists, go to more seminars, try to muster more will power, make more decisions. But the result, she often finds, is just spinning her wheels. The solution, ironically, is not more movement, but less. The cure for “stuck” is “still.” A gathering in of the energy unleashed by Saying No and Letting Go. That is what the Fertile Void can offer, an opportunity to exchange the wish to control life for a willingness to engage living. "
― Suzanne Braun Levine , Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood