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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. — Jane Addams

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. — Cher

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington. — Christina Stead

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days. — Paul Feig

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men. — Simone De Beauvoir

A woman of a certain age must learn to hear what suits her purpose," Theodora said with a naughty smile. "Old women and cats do as they please. — Jackie King

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. — Megan Chance

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days. — Jennifer O'Neill

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young. — Bob Dylan

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson

Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever. — Marcia Muller

As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it? — Edward St. Aubyn

She's an old woman possessed of great powers
but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think. — Catherynne M Valente

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream. — Marlo Thomas

You're presence here has caused a fresh buzz amoung the young women. You need to find one who suits you before you're too old. — Cindy Woodsmall

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. — Andre Holland

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is. — Chloe Thurlow

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties. — Heather Brooke

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit. — William Faulkner

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. — Jane Fonda

This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books. — Jonathan Galassi

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy. — Toni Morrison

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models. — Emma Bonino

She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty of age as early as possible. — George Eliot

Death laughs when old women frolic. — Publilius Syrus

Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken. — R. Scott Bakker

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. — Maxine Kumin

Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart. — Philippa Gregory

I was a child who went about in a world of colors ... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants. — Frida Kahlo

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. — Ruth Rendell

In the cottage, two old women stared, envy and hope mixing in their faces, at a tall, handsome woman with black hair and dark eyes and red, red lips. — Neil Gaiman

Feeling young and old at the same time is the present."

From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood — Suzanne Braun Levine

I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women ... I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life. — Teresa Heinz

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies. — Gwen Moore

To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. — Henry David Thoreau

Somehow human resources only assigns me gay men or women old enough to have birthed me. I suspect that's on direct orders from Sawyer. Dick. — Jana Aston

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living. — Elisabeth Murdoch

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. — Mae West

The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete. — Barbara Kingsolver

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Hearing old macho men, our uncles, calling themselves "Bra". Like women underwear. — Zukiswa Wanner

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty? — Dorothea Benton Frank

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. — Anna Held

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two. — W. Somerset Maugham

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old. — Camryn Manheim

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray. — Neal Shusterman

Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side. — Stephen King

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. — Tobsha Learner

Blessed are the elderly men and women. — Lailah Gifty Akita

WOMEN sit, or move to and fro - some old, some young;
The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful than the young. — Walt Whitman

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face. — Robin Schone

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. — George Clooney

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers. — Sheridan Smith

Beware women grown
old
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance. — Jane Swisshelm

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep. — Wilson Mizner

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home. — Jennifer Crusie

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want. — Mariella Frostrup

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young? — Sylvia Day

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. — Julia Ward Howe

Old age is women's hell. — Ninon De L'Enclos

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let the old woman have her God, God was as necessary for old women as enemas and Lipton tea bags. — Stephen King

Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women. — Zainab Salbi

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. — Anne Enright

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women! — Arthur Miller

I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old. — Julie Delpy

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming. — Warren Spector

Women are never too old to wear pink," Fergus replied firmly. "I have heard les mesdames say so, many times. — Diana Gabaldon

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. — Erica Bauermeister

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. — Patti LaBelle

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer. — Jerry N. Uelsmann

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering. — Nancy Astor

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children. — Alanis Morissette

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?'
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail. — Sara Sheridan

I had to flatter them the whole evening to appease them; for old women must not be angered - they make young women's reputations. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. — J.P. Donleavy

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys. — Dov Davidoff

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to. — Alexander Pushkin

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old. — Jen Kirkman

Great songs are gone; unsung songs remain. Who will sing them? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs! — Renita D'Silva

I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby. — Emo Philips

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. — Jennifer Lopez

Old women look all innocent and goody-two-shoes, but then they level some all-knowing eyes on your ass. — Adam Johnson

What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had. — Ernest Hemingway,

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. — Shelagh Delaney

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful. — Brownell Landrum

When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men? — August Strindberg

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?'You are saving your family. — Renita D'Silva

What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke. — Zach Braff

I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids. — Florence Converse

Women's loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind — Waris Dirie