Quotes About Aging

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

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.

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Old age is women's hell.

Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.

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.

The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves.

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.

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

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.

Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.

Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.