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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• Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Ruins, Abstinence

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• I've always been "other." I've always felt odd; I have always felt foreign in the environment I've been in. When you are young, that is a really uncomfortable thing to feel. As an older woman I really embrace it.

  Alison Moyet

  Environment, Odd, Embrace

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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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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• We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Europe, Lucky, Drawers

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• The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Eye

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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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• Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

  Kathy Lette

  Women, Kryptonite, Age

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• In France, older women are considered sensual, and they don't have to mask the lines and wrinkles and erase every sign of their life on earth to be attractive and get laid.

  Alexia Landeau

  Sensual, Earth, Mask

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Men, Careers, Long

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• You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

  Doris Roberts

  Mind, Call Me

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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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• 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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• 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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• At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. And I think we're at a point now where a lot of older women take better care of themselves, compared to the 1940s and '50s when women were programmed to figure it's all over after 30.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Tolerance, Care

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Betrayal, Writing, Destiny

  Ann Kidd Taylor, Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “Travelling with Pomegranates”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.

  Bell Hooks

  Growing Up, Home, Night

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• We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Advice, Honest, Heroines

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

  Carre Otis

  Girl, Mean, Media

  "A Sisterhood of Inner Beauty" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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