Wisdom from Judi Dench

[Warrigal]

Judi Dench:
"Don’t prioritise your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humor though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritise your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritise the uniqueness that make you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better."
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[davey]

God I love that woman only one in a century heh??

 

[oscash]

Thank you Warrigal for posting that . Judi Dench is one of my favourite actors and she certainly has a great sense of humor. I've just posted it on to my friends. And by the way, I have an old school friend who is the spitting image of Judy, she said many of her friends have told her the same.

 

[davey]

god imagine having a friend who looked like JD coming to your house all the time and sometimes sleeping over>??

 

[oscash]

god imagine having a friend who looked like JD coming to your house all the time and sometimes sleeping over>??

She is still very attractive at 81, but we are not into sleepovers, that would be too spooky.

 

[davey]

She is still very attractive at 81, but we are not into sleepovers, that would be too spooky.

why??

 

[OneEyedDiva]

My BFF mentioned Dame Judi Dench just yesterday when we were talking about movies. I love that wise wisdom.

 

[DebraMae]

She has long been one of my favorites. I watched "Tea With the Dames" on Netflix a few years ago and laughed through most of it.

 

[davey]

She has long been one of my favorites. I watched "Tea With the Dames" on Netflix a few years ago and laughed through most of it.

that is an absolute classic - women power heh - love the way they critiqued their spouses - very subtley almost like an actress??

 

[Mizmo]

One of my favourite actresses but she did not write that.

I have it in my files. I love it. Donna Ashworth is an author

Don’t Prioritize Your Looks (Poem by Donna Ashworth) | Polly Castor

 

[hollydolly]

I've worked with JD.. I can't imagine her saying even half of that.....

 

[Warrigal]

I don't care who gets the credit. The substance is what matters to me.

I remember something similar being made brutally explicit by Jane Elliott in the Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes experiment. Germaine Greer also talked about what happens to women later in life who had always counted on their attractiveness as an asset.

 

[StarSong]

She has long been one of my favorites. I watched "Tea With the Dames" on Netflix a few years ago and laughed through most of it.

I haven't seen this. Will have to look for it - seems like a fun watch.

Edited to add: I just ordered it from my library. Am looking forward to watching it.

 

[davey]

it's a bloody hoot!! - they h ad a job stopping the sessions at all!

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I love your "signature"saying Warrigal !

 

[StarSong]

I love your "signature"saying Warrigal !

Thanks for pointing it out, Diva. @Warrigal, for quite a while, wasn't your signature a quote from Margaret Atwood?

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Thanks for pointing it out, Diva. @Warrigal, for quite a while, wasn't your signature a quote from Margaret Atwood?

You're welcome.

 

[Meanderer]

Judi Dench, Throwback Photos

Dressed up as Aunt Sadie in Love in a Cold Climate.

 

[Meanderer]

@Warrigal Thanks for the good read on Judi. Her beauty still shines through.

 

[hollydolly]

She is still very attractive at 81, but we are not into sleepovers, that would be too spooky.

Judi is 89....years old... she'll be 90 in 6 months time..

She's almost totally blind, she hasn't been able to read a script for many years so she has someone read her scripts to her or has them put on tape... fortunately she has a superb memory . and can recite huge swathes of Shakespeare from memory

 

[davey]

this is why I don't like old age - people get to stare at you?

 

[Warrigal]

Thanks for pointing it out, Diva. @Warrigal, for quite a while, wasn't your signature a quote from Margaret Atwood?

It could have been but I forget what I post as signatures almost as soon as I change them.

 

[StarSong]

It could have been but I forget what I post as signatures almost as soon as I change them.

I believe it was this one:

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”​

― Margaret Atwood

I'd never seen it before and the truth of it stuck in my mind.

 

[VintageBetter]

One of my favourite actresses but she did not write that.

I have it in my files. I love it. Donna Ashworth is an author

Don’t Prioritize Your Looks (Poem by Donna Ashworth) | Polly Castor

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Thank you for this correction. Tis true.

 

[Warrigal]

I believe it was this one:

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”​

― Margaret Atwood

I'd never seen it before and the truth of it stuck in my mind.

Yes, I consider that post to be extremely apt. Women in Australia are being killed by a current or former partner at a rate exceeding one woman per week. The government is being shamed into taking the issue seriously and providing more funds to allow women to leave violent relationships safely because the most dangerous time is when the woman decides to escape.