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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. -- Chavela Vargas
I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up. -- Sue Monk Kidd
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. -- Josh Billings
Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night. -- Karen Hawkins
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening -- Karen Hawkins
Old women should not seek to be perfumed. -- Archilochus
When I grow up I want to be an old woman. -- Michelle Shocked
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. -- George Clooney
I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse! -- Beatrix Potter
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. -- Charles Bukowski
People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. -- Megan Chance
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. -- Henry David Thoreau
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now. -- Bill Cosby
And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? -- Mervyn Peake
And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear. -- Neil Gaiman
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. -- Brendan Behan
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't. -- Gertrude B. Elion
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. -- Jenny Joseph
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive -- Robert A. Heinlein
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood. -- Tyne Daly
In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight. -- Jack Dee
The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever. -- Auberon Waugh
I'm just a tough old woman. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I learned a woman is never an old woman. -- Joni Mitchell
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me? -- Lillie Langtry
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! -- John Buchanan Robinson
When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family. -- Elian Gonzalez
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism. -- Rachel Corrie
I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands. -- Alison Moyet
If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
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If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I'm not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I'm not in the wrong. I'm a millionaire, and I'm not thinking about grabbing an old woman's purse. -- Ving Rhames
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I dress like a 30-year-old woman. -- Selena Gomez
The old woman dies, the burden is lifted. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. -- Victor Hugo
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear. -- Miguel de Cervantes
A man's only as old as the woman he feels. -- Groucho Marx
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast. -- E. W. Howe
Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure. -- Victor LaValle
How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles! -- Thomas Eakins
I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man. -- Eric Dane
I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. -- Tamsin Greig
My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. -- Abraham Lincoln
A man is only as old as the woman he feels. -- Groucho Marx
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella -- Don Marquis
I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman. -- Candy Darling
I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about. -- Anthony Kiedis
Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat. -- Felicity Kendal
You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself. -- Mitch Albom
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. -- Tennessee Williams
A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved -- Vincent Van Gogh
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can. -- Bonaventure
Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. -- Camille Paglia
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law. -- E. W. Howe
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine. -- Judy Horacek
Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young -- Coco Chanel
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. -- Gracie Allen
Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness. -- Georg Ebers
I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife. -- Tony Curtis
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb -- Chinua Achebe
Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now. -- Amanda Bynes
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The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman. -- Fanny Fern
There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible. -- Anne Enright
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. -- Stendhal
I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!! -- Angela Merkel
A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it. -- Anita Roddick
There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike. -- Sebastian Horsley
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. -- Thomas Nelson Page
It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new. -- George Bernard Shaw
Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H. -- Rita Hayworth
Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman. -- Susan Cheever
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Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman. -- Susan Cheever
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine. -- Shirley Booth
Go back to your wife....you man whore! Shouted the old woman, raising her walker for another strike. -- Shannon K. Butcher
I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs. -- Mick Jagger
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back. -- Mason Cooley
I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs -- Mick Jagger
A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is. -- Billie Burke
There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine. -- Beth Broderick
There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett. -- Amanda Peet
It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame. -- Lemmy Kilmister
I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home. -- Barry Goldwater
I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive. -- Kim Harrison
I've heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a "professor -- Tucker Max
Emily Osment has 'osteo-old-woman-itis.' She can't lift weights or do physical activity but ride her bike and do yoga. -- Lucas Till
Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. -- Terry Goodkind
A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain -- Stephen King
It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it. -- Emma Thompson
What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself? -- Erma Bombeck
Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman. -- Marissa Meyer
As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. -- Michelle Bachelet
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain -- Anna Garlin Spencer
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! -- Anna Garlin Spencer
I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal. -- Priyanka Chopra
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning. -- George Sand
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema. -- Emmanuelle Beart
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker? -- Rudyard Kipling
But in some ways, I'm like an old woman - lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt. -- Drew Barrymore
And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five. -- Aretha Franklin
There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892. -- Sam Levenson
33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. -- Jarod Kintz
Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle -- Ally Carter
Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality. -- Paco Rabanne
I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can. -- Neil Young
That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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