How to Age Disgracefully Quotes

“The strange thing about reaching your fifties is that, although your outsides might be gradually falling apart, on the inside you don’t feel any different from the way you did in your twenties.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“She appeared to have jumped out of the frying pan of sexism and into the fire of ageism. The final frontier of isms.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Oh no,” said Daphne into the phone. “How awful. I’ll be there as soon as I can.” “Is there a problem?” said Tony. “Yes,” said Daphne, the prepared lie poised on her lips, before the truth barged right past it. “The problem is you’re a rude, self-centered, patronizing prig.” She picked up Tony’s wine glass and poured half of the extremely expensive red wine into his lap. “There. It’s only one-third full now, and aerating away.” Then, she winked at the waitress and left. What a waste of her foxy, smoky eyes.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“The strange thing about reaching your fifties is that, although your outsides might be gradually falling apart, on the inside you don’t feel any different from the way you did in your twenties. I still don’t feel like a “proper adult,” and I don’t expect that I will at seventy, either.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“So much had improved in the intervening years and she was glad to see that a couple of the councillors at the meeting were female. But now, she was being ignored because of her age. She appeared to have jumped out of the frying pan of sexism and into the fire of ageism. The final frontier of isms.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Where’s the fun in aging gracefully?” said Daphne. “Personally, I intend to age as disgracefully as possible.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Dylan Thomas”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day,’ ” said Daphne. “It’s the closing party tonight. Let’s go burn and rave.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“You don’t get to our age with a completely unblemished record. Not unless you’ve not lived. The trick is just to try to ensure the balance falls on the side of the good.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“High on the ordinariness of it all.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“How lovely it must be to be an age at which you wanted to add quarters rather than subtract decades.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Two hours later”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“We can skin two cats with one stone.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“She was reading a book called Cracking the Menopause: While Keeping Yourself Together, but she still felt like she was falling apart. She’d put the book down somewhere and lost it for days, before finding it in the microwave.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day,”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“We should remember what Dylan Thomas said.” “What did he say?” said Art. “ ‘Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day,”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“And be careful, Daffy, because when I look at you now, I’d almost think you were capable of love.” “Actually, you’re the one who should be careful,” said Daphne. “Because when I look at you now, I’m starting to think I just might be.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“How could you create a future when you had no present you enjoyed and no past you would admit to?”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“I wasn’t sure you had it in you, to be honest. But it’s not so hard, is it? You just need to take a deep breath, and channel your power.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Lydia, you need to stop taking what irritating, self-important men tell you as the gospel truth,” said Daphne. Lydia wondered whether she was referring to the council or Jeremy. Possibly both. “You are not a doormat for them to wipe their feet on. You are a grown woman, at the height of her powers. You just need to channel them.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“How could someone so small elicit such huge emotions? A complex tangle of resentment, fear, and confusion, all wrapped up in the most overwhelming, primal love.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“What is it you want?” Daphne asked her. “You’re going to have to learn to communicate a little better than this, you know, or you’ll never get anywhere in life.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Art climbed the stairs. The staircase he’d crawled up as a baby, tobogganed down in a sleeping bag as a child, then bounded up with his first girlfriend as a teenager, shedding articles of clothing on the way, then quickly retrieving them so they wouldn’t be spotted by his mother. The staircase he could still picture his young wife climbing, with a mound of washing under one arm and a baby on her hip. Recently, climbing these stairs felt like ascending a small mountain. Today, more than ever.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Most folks see gray hair as a sign of age. Not me. I see it as a blank canvas. It’s”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully