Quotes by Maggie Kuhn

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

“Few people know how to be old.”

“Learning and sex until rigor mortis.”

“By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.”

“There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!”

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

“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -- even if your voice shakes.”

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

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

“If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.”

“Basically I am interested in friendship, sex, and death”

“Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.”

My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

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

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

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

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

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

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.