“I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.”

“ The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.”

“What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks, and public works.”

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

Age as an issue is one big fat oxymoronic mess…because you can’t come to any one conclusion about age. You can’t take any one position: not in employment, not in political picks, not in your own expectations about when you’ll hit your stride, when you’re in your prime and which…

“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”