Older Women Quotes

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  Naveen Andrews

  Beautiful, Character, Wrinkles

  "Seven Bold Statements", www.esquire.com. June 26, 2007.

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• Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Thinking, May

  Quoted in John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)

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• Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sex, Used, Oxymoron

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Strong, Character, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Lovely, May

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• When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beauty, Handsome, Study

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.380, Penguin

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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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• In the dark, all cats are grey.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cat, Dark, Mistress

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.204, Penguin

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• In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Two, Mistress

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Animal, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.294, Regnery Publishing

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• It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

  Penelope Wilton

  Grumpy

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• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

  Amy Heckerling

  Dream, Hollywood, Factories

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.

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• There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.

  Heidi

  Girl, Issues, People

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• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  Sally Kirkland

  Sexy, Europe, Sophia

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• I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

  Sally Field

  Country, Believe, Community

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• Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Drama, Grandmother, Play

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• I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

  Taye Diggs

  Games, Play, Quality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Husband, Feminism

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media

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• The friendship that you create between you and a mom - or you and an older woman figure - is so important and so influential. I think that my relationship with my sister, my relationship with my best friends - when I'm feeling really terrible about myself, they're always there to let me know that I am being dramatic about something, or I'm being stupid about something - it's good to have those kinds of people to drag you back down and protect you.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Mom, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.

  Sarah Lafleur

  New York, Cities, Paris

  "BYT Style Interview: Mémé LAFLEUR". Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Getting Older, Our Society

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Education is fundamental. And I know some aren't blessed to be afforded the luxury, 'cause as sad as it is in 2016, it is still a luxury. I'd say when you're young, look for someone, an older woman, you'd like to emulate. Not necessarily her career, but the soul and essence of that woman. I use women like Susan Taylor and Tyra Banks to girdle me up so I can find my own strength and forge my own path.

  Eva Marcille

  Blessed, Essence, Careers

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you."

  Evangeline Lilly

  Heart, Role Models, Healthy

  Source: www.justjared.com

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