Maggie Kuhn

“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

“Leaving the rocking chair behind, we are able to mobilize a new constituency of the old and the young, who are natural allies.”

“My goal is to make a little bit of trouble.”

“Ageism is a social disease, a sickness of the soul. It is a form of bigotry, a prejudice against our own future selves.”

“We are the elders of the tribe and we have a stake in the future... We can be the risk-takers...the whistle-blowers.”

“Learning and sex until rigor mortis.”

“Old people have a vested interest in the future, and that is why we should be the arbiters of what happens.”

“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. When you get that trembling out of your voice, you will have gotten it out of your soul.”

“The first thing I want you to do is to be outrageous. And the second thing is to make a list of five things you have wanted to do but have been afraid to.”