Unbreakable Quotes

“Your mind can’t go forward if it’s constantly looking back, mired in youth worship and constantly referring to when “I used to be able to.” That’s why I ask everyone to start with mobilizing mindset and creating a vision for the future.”
― Vonda Wright, Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power

“Osteoporosis still doesn’t get the attention that cancer or heart disease does, despite its affecting more than 200 million postmenopausal women worldwide.”
― Vonda Wright, Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power

“As women, we also naturally lose bone earlier and faster, and we hit a steep decline at menopause (which we’ll cover in depth in Chapter 11), when research shows that up to 20 percent of a woman’s lifetime bone loss can occur. That’s why women fifty years and older have a four times higher rate of osteoporosis and twice the rate of osteopenia compared with men of the same age.”
― Vonda Wright, Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power

“while some scientists believe aging is a disease that needs to be cured, others, like me, believe aging is a superpower. It allows us to grow through our experiences into the richness of life and to live in all the richness we are capable of. The issue is not our aging but our health as we age. We must take action to build an Unbreakable life, in which our healthspan equals our lifespan.”
― Vonda Wright, Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power

“though we think of bones as calcified rods that hold us up, our skeleton is actually an endocrine organ! Our bones produce proteins that help to control brain function by stimulating the production of neurotransmitters.”
― Vonda Wright, Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power

“I do not lift weights to look good in my little black dress. I contract my skeletal muscle to decrease inflammation, to stimulate my mitochondria to be more metabolically efficient, to rejuvenate my muscle stem cells, and to keep my skeleton strong for life.”
― Vonda Wright, Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power