From Suzanne Braun Levine…
“The miracle of now is how our life-long either/or way of seeing the world is morphing into a both/and outlook.” Lesson 10: ‘Both’ Is the New ‘Either/Or’ “50 Is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
Helen Mirren, ZOOMER Magazine (Canada),
July/August 2011:
“My world at 65 is a world that I love and a world that I enjoy.” “I get a little tired of the obsession with sexuality when there are so many other human qualities out there. It just becomes BORING.”
In 2008, AARP magazine, celebrated “50 Reasons to Love Being 50+.”
Here are ten that remain our favorites because… Sex gets better with age Gray looks good You have guts to change careers You’re more compassionate We don’t tolerate bad service You’ve been embarrassed so much you’re all out of chagrin Love grows deeper over time We are powerful We’re living longer than ever before Older […]
From “INVENTING THE REST OF OUR LIVES – Women in Second Adulthood – a book about What Matters, What Works, What’s Next”
“Our strength and our anima stem in good part…from thinking about what it means to be a woman, here, now, in this culture, and in our imagined future. Our tribe is the tribe of woman.” — Natalie Angier, “Woman: An Intimate Geography”
From “INVENTING THE REST OF OUR LIVES – Women in Second Adulthood – a book about What Matters, What Works, What’s Next”
“Age 3: She looks at herself and sees a queen. Age 8: She looks at herself and sees Cinderella. Age15: She looks at herself and sees an Ugly Sister and says, “Mom I can’t go to school looking like this!” Age 20: She looks at herself and sees “too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too […]
From “INVENTING THE REST OF OUR LIVES – Women in Second Adulthood – a book about What Matters, What Works, What’s Next”
“As we zero in on what really matters in our lives now, we become better able to recognize — and make peace with circumstances we cannot change and we become more experienced in taking charge of those we can and want to change.” — Suzanne Braun Levine
From “Daring to Be Ourselves” – A book of inspiring and empowering quotes from interviews by Marianne Schnall www.daringtobeourselves.com
Owning Our Power “Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together–women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it. We have to own our personal power. — Jane Fonda
Embracing Aging
“It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, ‘I’m six and a half.’ You know, we could be saying, ‘I’m fifty and a half’ and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and […]
We Are Beautiful Just as We Are
“I always thought that people told you that you’re beautiful–that this was a title that was bestowed upon you, that is was other people’s responsibility to give you the title…And I think that it’s time to take this power into our own hands and to say, ‘You know what? I’m beautiful. I just am. And […]