Older, wiser & over it – what women over 80 want you to know
58 little nuggets you're better off knowing
Some of the interviews I enjoy doing the most for The Shift podcast are with those much older women who’ve really lived. Women in their 80s and 90s who’ve been through the mill and know a thing or two about what life looks like on the other side. These are just some of the moments that have lived on in my brain long after the resulting podcast has been and gone, so I thought I’d share their wisdom with you…
ON LIFE
We have very conventional ideas about how you have to live and what you get in life. And there’s only this way to get it or that way to get it. And that’s just not been true for me.
Delia Ephron, 81
Spend your energy wildly. Life has to move and your energy has to be working or it dies. If you’re not spending your energy so that it’s moving, it can’t live.
Dr Gladys McGarey, 103*
It’s down to you. I think that probably is the thing that’s guided my entire life. It’s down to you.
Sheila Hancock, 92
It really is astonishing how much shit a woman will cop in the interest of civic and domestic order!
Helen Garner, now 83
If anyone wants to crush your dreams with their big fat foot, get out.
Delia Ephron, 81
I’m probably pretty invisible and I probably don’t notice!
Jane campbell, 83
