on seeing

"...Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen. These old-as-dirt days have one advantage: I've learned to see beauty where I never saw it before. But only because my expectations are more realistic. My favorite part of my body is my eyes. Not because of their color and God knows not because of their shape, but because of what they see.

I'm talking about that overwhelming feeling you get when you stand on a cliff and look out at the ocean. I'm talking about the flaws that eventually take on a life of their own. The ineptness that makes you who you are. I'm talking about women who make us see beauty where we never saw it; women who turn wrong into right."

- Diane Keaton