Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism Quotes
My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.
The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.
The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.