Why interview women over 80 years old? Consider this common insult: "You drive like a little old lady." This cliche suggests all old women are alike and all are negligible and negative - limited, timid, hesitant, implicitly uninteresting and unimportant. Ageism and sexism in three words These interviews will introduce you to thirteen women - age 80 to 97 - who disprove the cliche. All of them have lived intensely and continue to have interesting, evolving lives. These marvelous old women come from a wide variety of backgrounds. They are Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and unaffiliated;...