Old Age Quotes in Middlesex

Now, don't tell Madonna that we said forty-one is old (she's way over that hill, but still rocks it like a twenty-year-old). What we're illustrating here is the whole with-age-comes-wisdom cliché. From Cal's forty-one-year-old vantage point, he can accept his youth, and make space for that part of his identity to become a part of him currently instead of hiding from it.

When you're an Old, you have to look back on your life and decide what to do with it. Do you accept it, or do you run from it?

Wow! Desdemona looks damn good for her age. Okay, she's being metaphorical here, but what is she talking about? Do her joints just really hurt, or is she thinking about the past and everything about her life and the lives that have come before her?