“Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate itevery time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover t...”

“My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth Your life does change as you get older, she told me. You get into whats important and whats not.”

“Its not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, its homophobia. Its not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; its racism. Its not having vaginas that makes l...”

“The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.”

“We dont ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?”

“Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!”

“You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)”

“We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pri...”

“My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.”

“In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.”

“If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will d...”

“NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed...”

“Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and ef...”