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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

    Happiness/Positive Aging

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    “There’s never been a better time to be an older person.”

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    — Esme Fuller-Thomson, Director of the University of Toronto’s Institute for Life Course and Aging

    “Experience is as beautiful as youth.”

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    — Erica Jong, American novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her provocative book on female sexuality, Fear of Flying.

    “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”

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    — Montesquieu, one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment who is considered the inventor of the modern concept of the separation of powers, highly influential on the framers of the US Constitution

    “If you still have passion and if you haven’t become cynical and you’ve remained open to life, then no matter how old you are chronologically, you’re still young.”

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    — Jane Fonda, Academy award-winning American actress, political activist, and environmentalist

    “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”

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    — Bonnie Prudden, American physical fitness pioneer, expert rock climber, and mountaineer

    “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”

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    — Anna Deavere Smith, Award-winning American actress, playwright, author, and professor