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"Loneliness is the scourge of old age, which means there has never been a better time to enjoy those water-cooler moments".

— Eve Pollard

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"There’s no right way of doing it. Nobody looks at blokes in boring suits and criticises them".

"I’m running in the last lap of life. But instead of relegating myself to deterioration, I try to regard myself as simply fraying at the edges".

"I don’t have all the answers to old age. In fact, I rarely think about it".

"When you have 50 per cent of women filling the top jobs, it becomes just uninteresting. Now, a few stand out – a few run companies, a few are famous. People have a go at them."

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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

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