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"Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!"
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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."
Woman
"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."
People
"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."
People
"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
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"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
Man
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
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"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
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"Law and justice are not always the same."
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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
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"Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died..."
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"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
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"Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back. Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We-by whom I mean anyone over sixty-commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight."
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"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?"
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"Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline."
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"The good thing about being old is not being young."
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"I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things."
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"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."
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"An old codger rampant and still learning."
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