"... you're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about ..."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

Peg Bracken

#Old Lady Quotes

“The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.”
“Art is really a battle.”
“I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.”
“I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.”
“I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.”
“If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.”
“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
“The solution of the problem lies in seeing itâ€”in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolutionâ€”just seeing whatâ€™s there. . . .”

Source : Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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