Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.
I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition-- women will only feel healthy if we are t...
I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellulite on your stomach—but not only do I get along w...
I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and l...
I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.
Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social...
Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped...
For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexu...
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own bo...
Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.
My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?
Is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight;...
A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. T...
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
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