Elara sat in the back row, her heart hammering against her ribs like a drum. She had spent her own money. She had fought distributors who said, "There’s no market for a menopausal road trip movie."

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True equity will be achieved when the presence of mature women in leading roles is no longer treated as a remarkable anomaly or a trend to be analyzed, but rather as an ordinary, permanent fixture of standard storytelling.