Older Women Quotes

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

Sally Field

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

Benjamin Franklin

#3. 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

#4. If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

Naomi Watts

#5. 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

#6. I think older women still have a full life.

Betty White

#7. Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Eleanor Clift

#8. 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

#9. Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Germaine Greer

#10. 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

#11. The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

Frances Lear

#12. We need an army of white-haired, wild-eyed radicals cutting a swath against the sexism that crosses our paths. It is a good antidote to the larger community's apparent belief that older women are slightly dotty, grandmotherly, benign souls.

Shari Graydon

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

Penelope Wilton

#14. 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

#15. Older women have always been attracted to me.

Corey Clark

#16. Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

Deborah Moggach

#17. She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning.

Primo Levi

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

Gail Sheehy

#19. 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

#20. Young girls always know. They know older women look at them and see what they've left behind and can't get back. It's a truth everyone knows but no one acknowledges: There's nothing more powerful than an eighteen-year-old girl.

Sarah Addison Allen

#21. I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.

Jessica Valenti

#22. I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally been through so much that I couldn't even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone.

Demi Lovato

#23. Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Cindy Gallop

#25. [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership ... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

Gail Collins

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

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

Amy Heckerling

#30. 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

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

Melinda McGraw

#32. Because our nation is stupid and Hollywood is coarse, there is no one to tell us of the deep and extraordinary beauty of older women. I now see them all around me and am filled with a fierce joy that one of them has come to live in my house.

Pat Conroy

#33. 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

#34. At one point during a focus group with older women, I asked them straight out whether a lot of women their age got married just to get out of the house. Every single woman there nodded.

Aziz Ansari

#35. 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

#36. I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

Judy Horacek

#37. 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

#38. Women always think in the catastrophic, and when there is a calamity to rectify that might require a unmarried granddaughter, there older women will always act. Their powers of foresight and vigilance might make any disheveled or nubile young haggage ready for the altar in five minutes.

Michelle Franklin

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

Marlo Thomas

#40. Such laws can be even more humiliating for older women. A widowed grandmother, for example, may have to rely on the permission of a grandson if he is her closest male relative.

Geraldine Brooks

#41. When dealing with older women, a trip to a hairdresser and two Bloody Marys goes further than any prescription drug. . . .

George Hodgman

#42. 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

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

Ian Fleming

#44. Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.

Michael Dobbs

#45. I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

Thomas Haden Church

#46. 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

#47. There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Tori Amos

#48. These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves indispensible.

Miriam Karmel

#49. The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the later months of pregnancy, they would smile at me, as if I was almost one of them. Now they smile at Sarah first.

Margaret Atwood

#50. This is the lament of older women, and ultimately of all old people - that you become invisible. It is especially hard for women, though, whose entire lives have been spent spinning around the idea that if no one is staring at you, you've somehow failed.

Jessi Klein

#51. Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

Frances Lear

#52. 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

#53. Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.

Isabella Rossellini

#54. The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Janet Flanner

#55. 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

#56. I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

Gloria Steinem

#57. In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Sherwood Smith

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

Kate Christensen

#61. 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

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

China Machado

#63. They claim there's a rationale for the children, don't they, sir?"
"Yes. Those babes in arms will grow up and want revenge on the Nazis in about 1963. I suppose the rationale for the women under forty-five is that they might be pregnant. And the rationale for the older women is while we're at it.

Martin Amis

#64. If you've got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets - imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels.

Twiggy

#65. Perhaps it is our dreams that keep us young. Older women who cling on to youth may look ghoulish, but perhaps they are happier than those of us who grow old and crochety before our time.

Kate Kerrigan

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

Sarah Lafleur

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Eileen Myles

#70. I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Alice Walker

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

Sally Kirkland

#72. I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#73. 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

#74. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.

Graham Greene

#75. A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.

Marie Helvin

#76. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Ambrose Bierce

#77. While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

Ellen Key

#78. Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

Jacqueline Bisset

#79. Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

Patricia Arquette

#80. I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

Tina Fey

#81. What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Caryl Rivers

#82. When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Jane Fonda

#83. Women were beyond me.
they saw something
depraved.
there was one waitress
a little older than
I, she rather smiled,
lingered when she
brought my
coffee.
that was plenty for
me, that was
enough.
- Young in New Orleans

Charles Bukowski

#84. Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.

Robin Caldwell

#85. Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

Cher

#86. I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

Alberto Tomba

#87. I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever ... But the fact that Helen Mirren can look so good in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women. When I think about [women like her] I instantly stop worrying.

Kelly Brook

#88. Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#89. High school is not unlike a Mormon fundamentalist cult where the women are claimed by the older and more powerful.

Mike Birbiglia

#90. Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older ... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

Sally Phillips

#91. I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#92. It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Julia Roberts

#93. I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.

Laura Benanti

#94. Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.

David Eddings

#95. A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.

Will Rogers

#96. There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.

Lisa Edelstein

#97. As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.

Robert H. Grubbs

#98. I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
(As quoted in Put Your Big Girl Panties on and Deal with it, Roz Van Meter, 2007)

Susan Sarandon

#99. It's not just about young people - there are films being made that deal with women getting older. That's a huge bonus, and here in America, that's a huge step forward.

Lesley Manville

#100. As men and women get older, they get crustier and not more fun.

Matt Chandler