Old Women Quotes
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Old Women Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think. — Catherynne M Valente
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
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
Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.
— Philippa Gregory
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
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
To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.
— Elisabeth Murdoch
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
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
The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful than the young. — Walt Whitman
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
old
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski
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
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
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
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
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
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
Great songs are gone; unsung songs remain. Who will sing them?
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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