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- You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
- Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
- To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
- Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
- Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
- Miriam Makeba, O Magazine, October 2003
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
- How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
- A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
- There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
- H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
- Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
- Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
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