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Quotes About Experience

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.
~ Mark Twain
I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.
~ Maureen O'Hara
I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.
~ Megan Alexander
The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.
~ Meredith Brooks
Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.
~ Naveen Andrews
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Old age is women's hell.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.
~ Pauline Oliveros
That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.
~ Rebecca Miller
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
~ Richard LaGravenese
No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.
~ Seymour Hicks
I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Dating a older woman- hot" Emmet Cullen
~ Stephenie Meyer
I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.
~ Terry McMillan
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!
~ William Batchelder Greene
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
~ William Hurt
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
An' I learned about women from 'er.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence.
~ Patricia Posner
I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.
~ Craig Davidson, Cataract City