Old age is an ordeal, of ...

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It\'s accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
 Colleen McCullough

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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
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 Colleen McCullough
I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
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 Colleen McCullough
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.
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And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
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 Colleen McCullough