This book will help those who are growing older to understand some of the changes and problems associated with growing older, whether you are twenty, forty, sixty or eighty.
Old Age Ain't No Place for Sissies
Translator Tom Payne turns to Ovid, Seneca, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes to discover invigorating counsel on mental decline, medicine, late love affairs, death and legacy.
11 “Old Age Ain 't No Place for Sissies” SHORTLY AFTER THE completion of The Whales of August, Lillian Gish told me, “I can't imagine why Bette Davis seemed to dislike me and made our scenes difficult, even beyond normal scene-stealing ...
'Old age ain't no place for sissies.
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In Quartet (2012, Dustin Hoffman), central character and former opera diva Cissy speculates about who first said, “Old age ain't no place for sissies.” She remembers the phrase despite experiencing early symptoms of dementia because it ...
Originally published in 1962, The Lonely Life is legendary silver screen actress Bette Davis's lively and riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages--now in ebook for the first time,...
“Old Age Ain't No Place for Sissies” “Successful aging” is not funny. Of course, when you slip the phrase into a conversation with someone who is unfamiliar with all of the scientific literature on the subject, you might find that they ...
' When people ask my secret to staying youthful at an age when getting up and down from your chair on your own is considered an accomplishment, you know what I tell them? 'Keep moving.'" - Dick Van Dyke