Older Women Quotes - Page 3

• When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

  Jane Fonda

  Jokes

  "Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on 'Grace and Frankie,' Loving Each Other (For Real) and the Right Way to Take Peyote (Also For Real)". Interview with Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. May 9, 2015.

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• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, College, Ideas

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.

  Erin Davie

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• God sent me a woman who was an older woman - who wasn't much older than me but she was older in the sense (of her relationship with) the Lord...She started guiding me. She was very much a model for my life.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Lord, Models

  Source: www.beliefnet.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 am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Sick, Way, Scripts

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• Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mean, Night, Getting Older

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.61, Zondervan

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• There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.

  Gloria Steinem

  Differences, Support, President

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

  Melanie Griffith

  Falling In Love, Character, Eight

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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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• 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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• All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

  Reem Acra

  Girl, Age, Young

  Source: www.elle.com

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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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• Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing.

  Sarah Lafleur

  Office, Generations, Looks

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

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• I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!

  Bryan Callen

  Fun, Heart, Two

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• I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

  Cindy Gallop

  Our Society, Invisible, Members

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• I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

  Cindy Gallop

  Settling, Attractive, Wanted

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• There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

  William H. Macy

  Real, Roles, Should

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• Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

  Hunter Parrish

  Actors, Knows, Involved

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

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• As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

  Melinda McGraw

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now that I'm an older woman, I'm so much more aware of the changes - almost too aware. I feel sorry for being so dismissive. You have to think about what you're thinking about and realize that you're thinking it.

  Lynne Tillman

  Sorry, Thinking, Realizing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Addresses, Facts

  "Betty White looks back on ‘The Golden Girls’". Associated Press Interview, blog.chron.com. September 15, 2010.

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• To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Boys, Play, Perception

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Inspire, Want, Roles

  "Angels and demons" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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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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