Women In Their 40s Quotes

#1. I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Thandie Newton

#2. Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe there's a little more accuracy there.

Julie Delpy

#3. I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers.

Joseph Altuzarra

#4. Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

Martiros Saryan

#5. We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Mark Twain

#6. They say that women's sexual peaks are in their 30s or 40s, and I think that it happens because they're more comfortable. It's not some hormonal change that happens at that age. Of course, it would be nice to have more physiological insight on that.

Mary Roach

#7. I want to tell you something but good taste
Restrains me

Sappho Van Lesbos

#8. He scares the shit out of me, and I used to work for people who made Freddie Krueger look like Mr. Rogers. (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#10. When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

Keeley Hawes

#11. I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.

Claudia Schiffer

#12. My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

Debra Winger

#13. I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

Vivica A. Fox

#14. We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.

Lesley Sears

#15. In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.

Jane Green

#16. But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

David Sedaris

#17. We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Dana Delany

#18. I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.

Malin Akerman

#19. What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

Sharon Stone

#20. Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#21. I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

Tabatha Coffey

#22. I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

Don McCullin

#23. I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

#24. Down the steep track into the village a car was coming. A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition.

Agatha Christie

#25. I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

Gloria Estefan

#26. When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

Tamsin Greig

#27. I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

Eva Gabor

#28. If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.

Amanda Peet

#29. Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture. That's when a woman's in her peak. That's when she's hot. She's already been through all of the junk. She's confident. Secure with who she is.

Vivica Fox

#30. As I lay in the late hours of night or perhaps the wee hours of morning, I felt content. I'd been right to keep faith and trust when I had no reason to. I didn't expect any grand gestures or magical solutions to things, but my hope was fueled.

J.M. Northup

#31. Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.

Roselyn Sanchez