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“Fear of dying is human. Fear of aging is cultural.”

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Book:This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older,’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.”

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Book:This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.”

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Book:This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.”

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Book:This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us.”

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Book:This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism