"I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it."

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Source: GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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