"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."

Age, Society, Women, Values

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"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."

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"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

George W. Bush, American President

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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Yo-Yo Ma, American Musician

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"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."

Michael Caine, English Actor

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"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion."

Tony Wilson, British Journalist

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you."

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"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."

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"Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work."

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"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

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"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

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"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."

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"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."

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"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness."

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"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

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"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk."

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