Maggie Kuhn Quotes

#1. I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

Maggie Kuhn

#2. Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

Maggie Kuhn

#3. People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic ... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Maggie Kuhn

#4. At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened.

J.M. Barrie

#5. Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

Pope John Paul II

#6. My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

Maggie Kuhn

#7. A gillie, by golly! But it's illegal!" "It knows," Crater

Homer Hickam

#8. Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

#9. By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

Maggie Kuhn

#10. Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Maggie Kuhn

#11. Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

#12. You can't be human alone.

Maggie Kuhn

#13. Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.

Maggie Kuhn

#14. When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Robert Irwin

#15. Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

Maggie Kuhn

#16. The best age is the age you are.

Maggie Kuhn

#17. The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Maggie Kuhn

#18. It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

Mike Duke

#19. Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Maggie Kuhn

#20. There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

Maggie Kuhn

#21. A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

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#22. There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Maggie Kuhn

#23. I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

Emanuel Lasker

#24. Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Maggie Kuhn

#25. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Maggie Kuhn