“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Interviewed in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday, December 1976, as quoted in Newsweek Vol. 88, p. 157
1970s
“Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, book Prozac Nation
Source: Prozac Nation
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