Once You're Over the Hill, Pick Up Speed, Charles Schultz

“Just remember, once you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.” - Charles Schultz

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 63.

Stupidity, Retrospect, Missed Chances, Stephen King

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” - Stephen King

Found on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/506731-stupidity-is-one-of-the-two-things-we-see-most.

Laughter, Carbonated Holiness, Anne Lamott

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.” ― Anne Lamott

Found on GoodReads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Give Up Essential Liberty, A Little Temporary Safety, Benjamin Franklin

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/benjamin_franklin_136955.

Because Women's Work, Never Done, Underpaid or Unpaid, Boring, Repetitious, Joyce Stevens, Brigit Books

"Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement." - Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987

I first read these words on a poster at Brigit Books in St. Petersburg, Florida. Brigit Books has long since closed (darn!). But I was able to find out that Joyce Stevens wrote the above quote as a Union Song for Women's Liberation Broadsheet, International Woman's Day, 1975.

Numerous links had this listed as "Author unknown, quoted in The Torch." While I was able to find links to several magazines and newsletters listed as The Torch, none of them were ones that had listed this quote. However, we now know who wrote these words.

Aging, Way-One Street, Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

“Aging is a one-way street with no stop lights.” - Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 57.

Pause to Wonder, Good as Dead, Albert Einstein

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 89.

Strength, Break a Chocolate Bar, Judith Viorst

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces." - Judith Viorst

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/judith_viorst_390004.

True Measure of a Man, Treats Someone, Samuel Johnson

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/samuel_johnson_103605.

Old Enough to Know Better, George Burns

“If you're old enough to know better, you're too old to do it.” - George Burns

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 43.

Best Protection, Courage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The best protection any woman can have...is courage." — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American abolitionist

Found at Beliefnet. View this online at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=17.

Fundamental, Government, Gloria Steinem

"There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690699.

Middle Age, Old Age, Offer her Seat, Bruce Lansky

“Middle age is when a woman on a train gets up to offer her seat to you. Old age is when the woman who gets up to offer you her seat is pregnant.” - Bruce Lansky

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 44.

Nation of Sheep, Defend Freedom, Edward R. Murrow

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." - Edward R. Murrow

Both of these can be found at Goodreads, specifically at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/178884.Edward_R_Murrow.

Rules, Good Photographs, Ansel Adams

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_107202.

Living Legend, Dead Legend, George Burns

“Being a living legend is better than being a dead legend.” - George Burns

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 38.

Women, Slaves, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the strapping spokeswoman for nineteenth-century suffragists.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 12.

The Future, Linda Moakes

“The future isn't what it used to be.” - Linda Moakes

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 38.

Nothing, Complete Wrong, Stopped Clock, Paulo Coelho

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/566.Paulo_Coelho.

Toward the Sunshine, Shadows, Walt Whitman

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1438.Walt_Whitman.

Experience, Mistakes, Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 41.

The Future, One Day at a Time, Abraham Lincoln

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” - Abraham Lincoln

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 24.

Will Not Equivocate, William Lloyd Garrison

“I will not equivocate, I will not excuse.” - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist, social reformer

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 40.

Old People, Health Foods, Preservatives, Robert Orben

“Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” - Robert Orben

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 77.

Measure of Society, Treat Their Weakest, Jimmy Carter

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens." - Jimmy Carter

Found on A-Z Quotes at http://www.azquotes.com/quote/557101.

This can also be applied to children currently being separated from their immigrant parents.

Secret to Staying Young, Lie About Your Age, Lucille Ball

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” - Lucille Ball

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 50.

Words Become Unclear, Focus with Photographs, Ansel Adams

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_107204.

Secret of Life, Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight Times, Paulo Coelho

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/566.Paulo_Coelho.

Scariest Moment, Just Before You Start, Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found on Goodreads.

New Lease on Life, Raises the Rent, Ashleigh Brilliant

“Every time I try to take out a new lease on life, the landlord raises the rent.” - Ashleigh Brilliant

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 28.

Reach Any Understanding, Learn to Stand Alone, Henrik Ibsen

“If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone.” - Henrik Ibsen, from his play, A Doll's House

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 16.