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Frances Lear

  • “The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.”

    • Frances Lear,
    • in Time ()

  • “I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.”

    • Frances Lear,
    • in Current Biography Yearbook 1991 ()

Frances Lear, U.S. publisher, writer, activist

(1923 - 1996)