Sadie Simms Allen, 81
»I’m a bit envious of the younger generation. They have so much freedom compared to us. I got married the day I graduated! A lot of my friends are passing away now. The rest of us are worried about outliving our pensions and assets?we don?t want to be a burden on our families. Now I live alone with my cat. I?m always collecting feathers. I use them to play with him?we?re good for each other.«

Trisha Brown, 65
»This is the body position that feels most like me. In a strange way, I felt like an apprentice all my life, both as a dancer and choreographer. Now I am taking my compositional skills into other arenas?opera, visual arts, drawing. As I?ve matured, I feel surrounded by a richness of sources, a new sense of freedom.«

Mona Miwako Lutz, 78
»I don?t think of myself as being old. When I?m with my granddaughter China, I feel the same age. I was born in Japan. I was brought up in a very old-fashioned way. There is not the same attention to etiquette anymore. I love China?s Yves Saint Laurent outfit. It?s so different from my Fortuny dress, which is fifty years old. They are both beautiful in their own right.«

Lola Santos, 76 and Granddaughter Alex
»Make use of all your faculties while you are going toward your golden years, because you want to be of service. To give yourself, to love?this is why we are on earth.«

Sister Elise: »I was in the U.S. Navy for three years before being called to the religious life. Sister Mary Christabel was in the Canadian Navy. We both feel like we are grandmothers. We have nurtured more children over the last fifty years than if we had been married.«

Sister Mary Christabel: »To be authentic and real, that is what is most important. Our sense of community and prayer has continually opened me to deeper levels of understanding and love.«

Betty Silverstein
»People often stop me now and tell me I?m beautiful. I never had this happen when I was younger. So for me aging has, at least on the surface, made others interested in me and who I am.«

Joyce Tenneson gilt als eine der respektiertesten und renommiertesten Portraitfotografinnen der Gegenwart in Amerika. Sie hat bereits diverse Portrait-Bildbände veröffentlicht und sowohl sog. Celebrities als auch Menschen wie Du und ich fotografiert.

Mir hat es vor allem ihre Serie »Wise Women«, die sie 2002 unter dem gleichnamigen Titel als Portrait-Bildband veröffentlicht hat, angetan. Dafür hat sie Frauen im dritten Lebensabschnitt fotografiert und lässt diese auch zu Wort kommen, d.h. die Frauen äußern sich z.B. kurz dazu, wie sie diesen Lebensabschnitt erleben und empfinden, welche neuen Horizonte sich für sie geöffnet haben, wo sie Einschränkungen erleben oder wie sie mit den körperlichen und anderen Veränderungen, wie z.B. der Verlust von Freunden, etc. umgehen.