The wolf is always at your door . . .

		"So I sat in the attic, piano up my nose, and the wind played a dreadful cantata. Sore was I from a crack of an enemy's hose and the horrible sound of tomato. Ketchup, soup and puree, don't get left behind." --McCartney/McCartney
		"The problem goes much deeper than menopause, face-lifts, or whether to fuck younger men. It has to do with the whole image of self in a culture in love with youth and out of love with women as human beings. We are terrified at fifty because we do not know what on earth we can become when we are no longer young and cute." --Erica Jong from Fear of Fifty "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." --Charles Dickens
		"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treatsures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." --Henry Miller
			"Jesus Shaves." --David Sedaris from Me Talk Pretty One Day "The difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable." --Charles Bukowski
			"Procrastination is the thief of time." --Edward Young
		"Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. "--Anne Wilson Schaef "Perfectionism is the voice of the oppresor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life." --Anne Lamott
			"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death." --Tom Robbins from Still Life With Woodpecker "The first wealth is health." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
			"Things do not change; we change." --Henry David Thoreau "It's terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can go through in a day." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
			"I knew what mattered and what did not. Love mattered. Instant orgasm did not." --Erica Jong from Fear of Fifty "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." --Jane Howard
		"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing you cannot do." --Eleanor Roosevelt "The great question . . . which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?" --Sigmund Freud "For years I wanted to be older, and now I am." --Margaret Atwood
			"When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others." --Eda LeShan "The purpose of our life is happiness. The turning-toward happiness as a valid goal and the conscious decision to seek happiness in a systematic manner can profoundly change the rest of our lives." --Dalai Lama from The Art of Happiness
			"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "And the day came when the risk [it took] to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." --Anais Nin "It's not men who limit women, it's not straights that limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is a lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it." --Tom Robbins from Still Life With Woodpecker
		"Worse than my despair over my inevitable physical decline (and whether or not to "fix" it) was my despair over the pessimism of midlife. Never again, I thought, would I walk into a room and meet some delicious man who would change my life. I remembered the mad affairs begun with a flash of eyes and a surge of adrenalin, and the upheavals they inevitably led to. By eschewing upheavals and embracing stability, by disowning my tendency to throw my life into a cocked hat -- so to speak -- every seven years, I had also becalmed myself. I wanted contemplation, not boredom; wisdom, not despair; serenity, not stasis. The sexual energy that had always called forth the next book, the adventurousness of a life that settled nowwhere, had begun to seem rash and foolish at fifty. At last I had "settled down" to cultivate my garden. Now, all I needed to do was figure out where my garden was and what to grow in it." --Erica Jong from Fear of Fifty
			When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off their terrible loneliness." --David Sedaris from Me Talk Pretty One Day



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