Doris Lessing on aging older « Entersection

Doris Lessing on aging older

"Tinker Bell" by _Max-B (Massimo Barbieri)

"Tinker Bell" by _Max-B (Massimo Barbieri).
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
— Doris Lessing in the Sunday Times Books Section, (London, England: Times Newspapers Ltd., May 10, 1992).

Posted on behalf of Doris Lessing on Monday, May 10th, 2010 under Quotations.

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