Maggie Kuhn Quotes

• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Strength, Disappointment, Age

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• Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Speak Your Mind, Voice, People

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age, Useless, Disease

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• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Elderly, Community, Healthy

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• Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age, Excellent, Outrage

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• Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Sex, Rigor Mortis, Rigor

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• When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Peace, Ubuntu, Speak Your Mind

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Goal, Outrageous

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• The best age is the age you are.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age

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• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Confusion, Age, Body

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• The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Women, Memorable, Names

  Observer 20 August (1978)

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• I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

  Maggie Kuhn

  Inspirational, Wrinkles, Badges

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• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Peace, Power, Ubuntu

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• Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Retirement, Hell, Crossroads

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• You can't be human alone.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Cooperation, Humans

  Maggie Kuhn, Margaret E. Kuhn (1972). “Get out there and do something about injustice”, Friendship Pr

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• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  Maggie Kuhn

  Funny, Goal, Age

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• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Retirement, Feet, People

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• People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Power, People, Important

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