“I believe we’re mainly on our own in our last phase of life and need to create our own personal reason for being.”

“Even under the best of circumstances – in twenty-first century America at least – caring for elderly parents ain’t no place for sissies.”

“Don’t hide your face with too much gunk,/Especially if it’s old and lined/Don’t answer e-mails when you’re drunk/Don’t live with thirty years of junk—/Those precious things you’ll never find/Stop, if the car is going “clunk.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“I never think of the future- it comes soon enough.”

“It’s not over till it’s over. You can keep being feisty, you can keep fighting and standing up and being brave, and we should, because what the hell do we older women have to lose?”