My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apart from growing old; it comes to us all. Youth passes from everyone, so why deny it? I'm proud of my age. I'm proud that I've survived this planet for as long as I have, and should I end up withered, wrinkled and with a lifetime of great wisdom, I'll trade the few years of youth for the sophistication of a great mind...for however long it lasts.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.