Ashton Applewhite Quotes

#1. Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.

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#2. We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?

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#3. Why not, above all, learn to look more generously at each other as well as at ourselves?

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#4. Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it - every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.

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#5. Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.

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#6. The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

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#7. The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

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