What Scares Women About Getting Older? Everything!

By Michelle Burford
Cicely Tyson on caring for aging relatives

"I'm anxious about the burden of caring for aging relatives."

"I've cared for my mother, my father, my sister, my brother. I've lost everyone in my immediate family. And when you're faced with those situations, despite the fact that you feel, Oh, God, if it ever happens to me, I won't be able to handle it, you don't know how you'll actually respond until you're in the circumstance. I never anticipated that I'd be the sole surviving member of my family. And I found that when the time came, I did what I had to do. I think all human beings would do the same thing."

— Cicely Tyson, actress, most recently in Diary of a Mad Black Woman