Doris Lessing Quotes About Aging

Quotes about: Aging

• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Time, Years

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

• She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

  Doris Lessing

  Girl, Self, Years

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.494, Vintage

• And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

  Doris Lessing

  Moving, Aging, Wonderful

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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