“Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart- it’s all a person has.”

“Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”

“Why hope to live a long life if we’re only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim ‘She looked ten years younger,’ or do we want them to say ‘She lived a great life’?”

“I think if you don’t live in the moment, then you become old.”

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”

“Vulnerability is sharable. When you tell another person of your feelings, you make connections and that is the beginning of community.”