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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

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    “As long as you can see each day as a chance for something new to happen, something you never experienced before, you will stay young.”

    — Sarah Louise Delany, an American educator and civil rights pioneer, who lived to be 109 and gained acclaim in a book written about her and her sister Bessie, entitled Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 years

    “A good way to overcome your stress is to help others out of theirs.”

    — Dada Vaswani, A renowned Hindu Indian spiritual leader whose efforts included the promotion of animal rights and vegetarianism.

    “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.”

    — Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman who held over 1000 patents

    “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?”

    — Jane Fonda, Academy award-winning American actress, political activist, and environmentalist

    “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.”

    — Erik Erikson, a Danish-German-Jewish child psychoanalyst considered one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century

    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

    — Alice Walker, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist