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- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
- Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954
- I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
- Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
- I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964), interview, 1959
- Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
- To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
- Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
- No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
- Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
- Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942
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