Quotes About Experience

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

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

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.

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

When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

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.

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Life was meant to be lived.