Age Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

““Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]””

Mary Catherine Bateson

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