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The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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Truth
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Aging

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I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
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One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
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It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.
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No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
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But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
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The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.
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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.
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You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.
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There are some things you never say good-bye to
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
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We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
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