Katherine Dunn Quote

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear.Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little t...

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I’m startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that...

You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness......Remeber when the boys were all electric?

Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.