Growth Demands A Temporary Surrender Of Security.

According To The Prevailing Mythology, To Be Younger Is To Be Better; Therefore, We Should Expect To Find Young People In The Majority Of Those Who Reflect High Well-being... In Fact, The One Finding That Registered More Consistently And Emphatically Than Any Other In The Course Of My Research Was This: Older Is Better.

A Seasoned Woman Is Spicy. She Has Been Marinated In Life Experiences. Like A Complex Wine, She Can Be Alternately Sweet, Tart, Sparkling, Mellow. She Is Both Maternal And Playful. Assured, Alluring, And Resourceful. She Is Less Likely To Have An Agenda Than A Young Woman-no Biological Clock Tick-tocking Beside Her Lover's Bed, No Campaign To Lead Him To The Altar, No Rescue Fantasies. The Seasoned Woman Knows Who She Is. She Could Be Any One Of Us, As Long A She Is Committed To Living Fully And Passionately In The Second Half Of Her Life, Despite Failures And False Starts.

This Is A Woman [hillary Clinton] Who For Many Of Her 52 Years Never Cared A Fig About Her Appearance, But In The Chrysalis Of Transformation From Political Wife To Independent Woman, The Jawline Has Been Chiseled, The Dominatrix Eyebrows Weeded, The Weight Dropped, And The Result Is A Woman Who Obviously Enjoys For The First Time Being Called Beautiful.

When Men Reach Their Sixties And Retire, They Go To Pieces. Women Go Right On Cooking.

Husbands Come And Go; Children Come And Eventually They Go. Friends Grow Up And Move Away. But The One Thing That's Never Lost Is Your Sister.