Selected Maggie Kuhn Quotations
• Learning and sex until rigor mortis.
• When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
• Old age is not a disease--it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
• Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -- even if your voice shakes.
• The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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Jone Johnson Lewis. "Maggie Kuhn Quotes." About Women's History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/maggie_kuhn.htm . Date accessed: (today). (More on how to cite online sources including this page)
