Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

The remark reframes aging as an aesthetic and ethical good rather than a decline to be concealed. By calling it a “wonderful beauty,” Kitt suggests that time leaves visible traces—experience, survival, character—that can be valued in their own right. The second clause shifts from personal attitude to social obligation: “respect” implies dignity for older people and resistance to cultures that prize youth while marginalizing age. Read this way, the quote is both self-affirmation and critique, urging admiration for maturity and a more humane, less ageist standard of beauty.