Feminism age Quotes

“Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.”

“Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.”

“My age and the ages of my children are imaginary numbers.”

“Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.”

“Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.”

“The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”

“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]”

“... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received. [p. 88]”

“Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”

“Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.”

“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”