Fence Sitting Quotes

“[T]he erasure of our elderwomen in general is part of what Sheehy describes as "a conspiracy of silence which has hidden the fact of how much power older women potentially wield." Power, remember, that lies partly in the fact that women over age fifty are no longer primarily caregivers and are therefore free to play more of an active role in society at large—and that is equally born from experience and the accumulation of common sense.
Once a person has taken a few turns around the block, it becomes much harder to hoodwink them into going against their own best interests. Having lived long enough to have overcome their fair share of traumas, and to have gotten the measure of how the world works, will also make a person far less likely to believe in the next quick fix or "miracle cure." They are more likely to retire their subscription to the capitalist credo of keeping up appearances and start living by their own playbook instead.”
― Ruby Warrington, Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood