"As We Are Now" Quotes
A woman in a nursing home fights against the dehumanizing conditions.
fiction | 144 pages | Published in 1973
Quotes
I am just something to be used up, to be thrown away when I am no longer needed.
We all have to die. That is the one thing we cannot escape.
It is not right to be treated as though we were not people.
There must be some way of going on living until we die.
I have no desire to be a child again. I have fought too hard to be what I am.
I am not going to be made a non-person just because I am old and not well.
I have nothing to lose now. That makes me very dangerous.
We are all in the end alone, each one of us.
It is a terrible thing to be old, a terrible thing to be so alone.
We must go on trying to express ourselves, even if it is only for a little while.





