Older women Quotes

“Bob leaned back and straightened his red paisley power tie. His smile was a bit lopsided and more than a bit suggestive. “In my experience, older women have very definite ideas about what they want—ideas that don’t include wheezing, potbellied, middle-aged guys with receding hairlines.” He chuckled and smoothed his flaxen tresses once more.She drummed her fingernails on the white tablecloth and looked for the waitress. That made six times so far this insolent pup had used the term “older women.”He gave her the once-over. “Nowadays, older women are so—”God help him if he says...“—well preserved.”Lina briefly closed her eyes. It was going to be a long evening.”

“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.”

“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”

“[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, ‘retouching artists’ conspire to ‘help’ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age...By now readers have no idea what a real woman’s 60 year old face looks like in print because it’s made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they’re comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine.”

“Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.”

“The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.”

“The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.”

“Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.”

“I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.”

“I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.”