Quotes About Ageism

I think as more women see that there are women out there building vibrant and creative and powerful lives and careers in their 40s, 50s, etc., then these older views of ageism will fall away.

There had been so many. He had hired young ones because they were more plentiful and worked cheaper. The better of those got married and pregnant and wanted six months off. The bad ones flirted, wore tight miniskirts, and made suggestive comments. He had hired more mature women to negate any physical temptation, but, as a rule, they had been bossy, maternal, menopausal, and they had more doctors' appointments, as well as aches and pains to talk about and funerals to attend.

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?

Middle aged women are such easy prey, like they're supposed to walk around with eyes averted, hanging their heads in shame at their wreckage. (Bellamy)

You mean, we should only beat up young people?" Davenport asked. "There are as many old assholes as there are young ones. Especially since the boomers got old.

I have long been aggravated, and it increases, about the way that society values women almost exclusively for their beauty and youth, and when we get older, tries to make us powerless - just when we're at our most knowledgeable, and most capable. It's so rotten. I gnash my teeth.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Nós, mulheres, estamos sempre sob a sombra da lâmina: impedidas de viver enquanto novas; acusadas de não morrer quando já velhas.

Dans le monde moderne on pouvait être échangiste, bi, trans, zoophile, SM, mais il était interdit d'être vieux. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,15)

Como Paul esperaba, la evocación de las hijas de Cécile había aligerado notablemente la atmósfera, en el fondo los jóvenes nunca tienen auténticos problemas, problemas graves, siempre imaginamos que las cosas se arreglarán para los jóvenes. En cambio, realmente nadie cree ya que un parado de cincuenta años tenga posibilidades de encontrar un empleo.

Evet, kad?nlar?n da erkekler gibi çirkin olabilme hakk?na kavuÅŸmalar? için mücadele etmeleri gerekiyor. Otuz ya??n üstündeki bir han?ma yaÅŸ sorulmaz diye geçiÅŸtirilen ve sanki yüz k?zart?c? bir hastal?k söz konusuymuÅŸ gibi bu konuda en ufak an??t?rmadan bile kaç?n?lan bu iÄŸrenç uzlaÅŸmay? b?rakmak gerek art?k.

Vrouwen bewonderen én verdenken iedere vrijgezelf die ouder is dan dertig.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

Nobody takes any notice of old women who wander around with their shopping bags.

In the last few years she has realized that all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it's automatic.

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.