#aging

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn’t conscious; it’s Pavlovian. (13) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#media #society #women #youth-culture #age

For after all we make our faces as we go along... ↗

— May Sarton

#age

Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again. ↗

— Herb Gardner

#aging #humor #philosophy #age

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#aging #books #old-age #reading #writing

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal. ↗

— Louise Penny

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The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#wisdom #age

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#age

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#age

90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me? ↗

— Sara Gruen

#age

The older I get, the better I was. ↗

— Van Dyke Parks

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