بریده‌ای از کتاب جستارهایی درباره زن اثر سوزان سانتاگ

most people in nonindustrial societies are not sure exactly how old they are. people in industrial societies are haunted by numbers. they take an almost obsessional interest in keeping the score card of ageing, convinced that anything above a low total is some kind of a bad news. in an era in which people actually live longer and longer what now amounts to the latter two-thirds of everyone's life is shadowed by a poignant apprehension of unremitting loss.