Old Woman Quotes

• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  Summer, July, Purple

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Strong Women, Time, Uncontrollable Urge

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Funny, Birthday, Health

  Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

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• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Funny Love, Witty, Money

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

  Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

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• A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Artist, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.303, Penguin

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• I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

  Chavela Vargas

  Life, Inspire, Behave

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• There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Time, Past, Class

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.233

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• Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

  Aristotle

  Money, People, Greek

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  Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Cancer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

  George Thorogood

  Good Woman, Rich, Stealing

  Song: Bad to the Bone

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• When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

  Michelle Shocked

  Growing Up, Want, Grows

  Song: When I Grow Up, Album: Short Sharp Shocked

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• My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Eye, Years

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• I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

  Candy Darling

  Lonely, Silly, Fool

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• I dress like a 30-year-old woman.

  Selena Gomez

  Years, Dresses

  "Selena Gomez: I'm Born in the Wrong Time" by celebrity-mania.com, December 28, 2009.

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• Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cake, Secret

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• My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Mother, Children

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• I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Baby, Fall

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• The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Littles, Today

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• Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Lying, Should Have

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.78, Random House

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• Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, Wish

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