Older Women Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

  China Machado

  Thinking, Age, World

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• Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Years, Interesting, History

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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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• Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Writing, Adjectives And Adverbs, Care

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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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• 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 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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• Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

  Alice Walker

  Patience, Family Life, Teach

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• She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

  Zadie Smith

  Women, Knowing, Awkward

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.20, Vintage

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• In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35

  Lisa Genova

  Eye, Mirrors, Mind

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• The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Waiting, Looks, Vanishing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

  William Hurt

  Running, Long, Want

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

  Kathleen Turner

  Women, Writing, Needs

  "Why I'm moving to Europe" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  Francesca Annis

  Jobs, Children, Erotic

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• It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

  Carla Gugino

  Movie, Girl, Men

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

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• The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Golden, Shows

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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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• 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 reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

  Frances Lear

  Men, Reason, Mortality

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• If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

  Trisha Goddard

  Country, Couple, Advice

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• Dating a older woman- hot" Emmet Cullen

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dating, Hot

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• I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

  Gloria Allred

  Friendship, Believe, Dating

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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  Francesca Annis

  Men, Thinking, Europe

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