A few thoughts about the passing of time, woman's times, and times of youth: the very youth our society, afraid of its new longevity, refuses to lose at least its visible features. How to be lovable and desirable, or rather how to stay so: there is the prescription our patients expect from our tender loving care. This was inspired by a round table on "Time lost and regained" at the January 2002 JTA meeting, [in Punta Cana].