Martha Beck Quotes

You know, 65-year-olds love sneakers because they make them feel forty.

Some feel old at 45.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you're 32. But it really doesn't.

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some, like my mother, have the curiosity of a child at the age of 94.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.