“Don’t be surprised, Pussycat,” said Helen Gurley Brown, still flirtatious at eighty-four, “We’re all survivors and proud of it. We want to talk about it.”

And they do. Eighty of America’s most famous eighty year-olds reflect on their journeys to the big 8-0 and describe the passions that keep them young. They all have opinions about today’s world what is good about being eighty and what keeps them vital. The members of this generation have spent eighty-plus years honing the art of living and they have secrets to share. Their personal stories are truly inspirational.

“My answer to growing old at any age, whether you’re growing to be twenty , or forty, or sixty or eighty, is to fall in love and stay in love.” –Ray Bradbury, 86, author

“It’s interesting to me–my career has taken off now that I’m ninety-five. It’s totally taken off. I had to wait ’til I was ninety-five to be this popular.” –Kitty Carlisle Hart, 95, singer

“I say quite sincerely that this is the best time of my life.” –Hugh Hefner, 80, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy

Contributors to the book include:

Mike Wallace, Helen Thomas, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Lena Horne, Kitty Carlyle Hart, Ray Bradbury, Art Buchwald, Norman Lear, Robert Byrd, George McGovern, and Jack Valenti.

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