The sort of old woman I want to be...

My mother is amazing. Her grandmother, my great-grandmother, recently died at the age of 98. She was a wonderful matriarch and someone my mother idolized. 

Whenever my mother walks around New York, she loves paying attention to the tiny old women. How they walk around, layered chicly in sweaters, scarves, with their giant leather bags and their hair done perfectly every day. My mother's main goal is to live to 100. A goal I completely support. She wants to have a long and exciting life. 

Ruth Gruber in Alaska.

So, when I told her about Ruth Gruber, she was amazed. Gruber, who is around the age of 100, was the youngest person in the world to receive their doctorate at the age of 20. She became a journalist, becoming a witness to major world events, including WWII. At one point sitting VERY close to Adolf Hitler at a rally when she lied and said she was a German citizen when she was really a Jewish-American woman. She's tough, intelligent, graceful, glamourous and she's still living her life her own way. There is a documentary about her life coming out, and I am going to see it at my first chance. 

She's definitely the kind of old woman I want to be.