“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces–down to the last glassy splinter.”

“One of the benefits of being old is that you remember when it was worse…way, way, way worse.” Gloria Steinem, being interviewed on The Takeaway radio show, November 9, 2016

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”

“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.”

“Inside every old person is a younger person wondering what happened…”