Old Woman Quotes - Page 9

• You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

  Mitch Albom

  Peace, Said

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• Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Song, Children, Fire

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

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• I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Aging, Discrimination

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• How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Dream, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beautiful, Girl, Book

  "The Wee Free Men". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

  E. Lockhart

  Years, Hot, Shapes

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.143, Hot Key Books

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Country, Horse, Village

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• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sisterhood, Media

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  George Clooney

  Men, Years, Unfair

  "'Ocean's Thirteen,' the Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, content.time.com. May 30, 2007.

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• Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fake People, Reality, Years

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• When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Young, Persons

  "Diane von Furstenberg’s New York City Penthouse In Architectural Digest" by Dickson Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, Years, Lucky

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• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  Arthur Golden

  Girl, Stupid, Silly

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• As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Years, Adorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side of life? I'm in the minority, such an old woman, perhaps. I love the books that have given kids joy, that give them hope at the end. Sometimes it seems to me the books right now are very depressive.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• We have brands spending ungodly amounts of money on print, television, outdoor radio, programmatic banner ads, website takeovers. Garbage. When I say garbage, they work-ish. They're just so overpriced. I don't know what else to say. I do not believe that it is worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars in distribution and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost to make one 30-second video to tell a 29-year-old woman that your soap is great, in a world where she is not going to consume that commercial.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, World, Banner

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Song, Queens, Years

  "Patti LaBelle: The People’s Diva". Interview with Damainion Ewell, allhiphop.com. June 1, 2004.

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• There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

  Amanda Peet

  Years, Interesting, Roles

  "Amanda Peet returns to television". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.

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• When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.

  Stephen Marche

  Baby, Children, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Crazy, Book

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• Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• By nature, I'm like a 90-year-old woman, so the whole internet and Twitter and Facebook, and all of that, I'm very new to. But, I am quite shocked at how much fun it is to be able to reach out to people, on a daily basis, and keep content out there, and how much it actually really does help promote things, in such a different way.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Fun, Years, People

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, Using Social Media, and Directing the Season Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Hilarious, Cutting, Tree

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.520, Macmillan

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• Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Moving, Rome

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