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Quotes About Aging

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.
~ Peter D. Kramer
Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it
~ Victoria Principal
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
~ Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.
~ James Thurber
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
~ Ruth Rendell
Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.
~ Carolina Herrera
There's a small club of women who are willing to age.
~ Debra Winger
Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!
~ Charles M. Schulz
I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.
~ Claudia Schiffer
I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
~ Alanis Morissette
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
~ Susan Glaspell
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
Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.
~ Frederick Lenz
All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.
~ Frederick Lenz
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 think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.
~ Erma Bombeck
Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.
~ Fay Weldon
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.
~ Jeff Stilson
I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.
~ Jen Kirkman
I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.
~ Jodie Foster