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Quotes About Experience

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.
~ John Cheever
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
~ Candace Bushnell
I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.
~ Maggie Tabberer
There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
~ Danielle Steel
it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
~ Sally Field
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
~ Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
~ Hugh Grant
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
By 40, all women are amazing.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.
~ Frederick Lenz
I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.
~ David Gest
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
~ Dawn Johnsen
I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.
~ Denise Levertov
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.
~ Diana Trilling
I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.
~ Diana Trilling
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
~ Doris Lessing
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
How few women have any history after the age of thirty!
~ Elizabeth Oakes Smith
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.
~ Emmanuelle Beart