How did I plan to become a teacher-turned-weight lifter-turned-TV producer to writer? That’s the thing, I didn’t. Nothing was planned, but it all worked because I worked at it.

Aging happens to all of us, and it’s not a death sentence. OK, it is a death sentence, but again, it happens to all of us, so stop being babies and let’s start being old ladies.

Boomers are the first generation of women to seek marriage and self-fulfillment.

In the first edition of Age Against the Machine, Dixie Laite tells it like it is: “I’ve been through a lot, I’ve done a lot, and I am not to be fucked with.”