You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
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