The perceptions of middle
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. Gail Sheehy
Middle Ages
My mother had demonstrated
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself – by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age. Gail Sheehy
As we reach midlife
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don’t hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties. Gail Sheehy
If one sees the
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery. Erik Erikson
There is a creative
There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has – namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated … Read more
The worst thing about
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don’t know where I’m going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, … Read more
Patience makes a woman
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. Elliot Paul
My generation is the
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress … Read more
If you\\’re middle aged…
If you’re middle aged… where’re you going to go to meet someone? You’re not going to go to a bar, you’re not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums. Elizabeth Perkins
In Venice in the
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega–a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. Elizabeth Gilbert