Quotes About Transition

The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change.

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.

The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake.

When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.

Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.

things keep falling in and out of place.this is the universe's way of taking care of me.