quotes about Ageism

“I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.”

“Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.”

“You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.”

“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”

Source : 'Missing Dates' (1935)

“Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.”

“Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?”

Source : "Iconoclasts". Documentary, November 16, 2006.

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”

“Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.”

“Gifts need not be expensive; after all, "it's the thuoght that counts." But I remind you, it is not the thought left in your head that counts; it is the gift that came out of the thought that communicates emotional love.”

“Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common.”