Quotes About Ageism

#1. Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

#2. All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!

Clara Fraser

#3. There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

Maya Angelou

#4. It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

Julie Walters

#5. 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

#6. Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.

Ashton Applewhite

#7. I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

Erin O'Connor

#8. It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

Joan Collins

#9. I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

Daniel Petrie

#10. The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

Barbara Windsor

#11. Have a problem with ageism, overt and especially covert. My feeling about a person's age is that it's a serving suggestion. It's up to you what you do with it: take it as offered, modify it, or ignore it altogether.

Elizabeth Berg

#12. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Claude Pepper

#13. Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Alanis Morissette

#14. Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

Perry Brass

#15. Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; being generally favoured.

Alexander McCall Smith

#16. 'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

Paul Weller

#17. We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

Madonna Ciccone

#18. Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.

Jane Seymour

#19. There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

Cyndi Lauper

#20. Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.

Timothy Noah

#21. There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.

Jacques Parizeau

#22. We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#23. Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Paul Krassner

#24. French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#25. Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

Madonna Ciccone

#26. As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

Barbara Delinsky

#27. The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.

J.S.B. Morse

#28. The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Barbara Delinsky

#29. Never judge a woman by her age.

A.J. Darkholme

#30. The good thing about being old is not being young.

Stephen Richards

#31. Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it - every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.

Ashton Applewhite

#32. Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)

Richie Norton

#33. When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

Stephen Richards

#34. So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show ... It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?

Barbara Delinsky

#35. Many thanks for your good wishes. The fact is, however, that I have not been ill except a two days attack of indigestion and subsequent fatigue, from which I am quite recovered. It is less easy to recover from a serious attack of indignation.

Harriet Boyd Hawes

#36. We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?

Ashton Applewhite

#37. Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.

Ashton Applewhite