American - Model | June 3, 1931 -
I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.
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I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing's worse than saggy duds.
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There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love.
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I hate a man who looks dirty.
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My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?
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We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
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I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.
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I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
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I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
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When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.
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I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!
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If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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