Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I’m older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise