Here are a few examples of Barbara's humor. Enjoy!
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- When you are a middle-aged woman, seen as having lost your youthful beauty,
no one pays attention to you. It's like being invisible; it's a perfect time for
a mid-life career change to shoplifting or auto theft.
- There's a wonderful part of growing older—the wisdom you gain. Now I know
life is a journey. Life isn't one thing after another, but the same thing, over,
and over, again.
- Mid-life is a time of great loss: loss of people, loss of memory. My friend's
mother died. I called her and said: "Doris, I'm so sorry to hear about the
death of your mother." She said, "It wasn't my mother, it was my father."
I said, "Are you sure?"
- My son is turning 13. Here he is becoming a man, and I still haven't lost my
pregnancy weight.
- Some say when you get older, there's more loneliness and no sense of community.
I don't feel this way. In my car in the morning, I see people in the next car
flossing their teeth, putting on makeup, navigating their noses. It's like we're
all in the shower together.
