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  • We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
  • The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women. -- Marlo Thomas
  • I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully. -- China Machado
  • I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world. -- Sally Field
  • 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. -- Annie Leibovitz
  • There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. -- Tori Amos
  • I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do. -- Gloria Allred
  • Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles. -- Naveen Andrews
  • 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. -- Alice Walker
  • Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. -- John Berger
  • Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. -- Gail Sheehy
  • Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. -- Ian Fleming
  • Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential. -- Frances Lear
  • You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not. -- Doris Roberts
  • What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that -- Kathleen Turner
  • She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down. -- Zadie Smith
  • 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
  • If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will. -- Naomi Watts
  • Now that I'm an older woman, I'm so much more aware of the changes - almost too aware. I feel sorry for being so dismissive. You have to think about what you're thinking about and realize that you're thinking it. -- Lynne Tillman
  • [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. -- Gail Collins
  • Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. -- John Berger
  • Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning. -- Sue Monk Kidd
  • I think older women still have a full life. -- Betty White
  • It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women. -- Penelope Wilton
  • Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. -- Ian Fleming
  • I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women. -- Cindy Gallop
  • Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. -- Robert Farrar Capon
  • Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. -- Francesca Annis
  • I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun! -- Bryan Callen
  • What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that. -- Kathleen Turner
  • Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives. -- Carre Otis
  • 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
  • Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. -- Francesca Annis
  • I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. -- Alice Walker
  • I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you. -- Taye Diggs
  • I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. -- Gloria Steinem
  • I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks. -- Jessica Valenti
  • There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them. -- Jessica Valenti
  • If you've got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets - imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels. -- Twiggy
  • Older women have always been attracted to me. -- Corey Clark
  • Men are allowed to get older and women are not. -- Shirley Knight
  • In literature, older women are not often given center stage. -- Kate Christensen
  • It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money. -- Tom T. Hall
  • Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women. -- Amy Heckerling
  • In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. -- Francesca Annis
  • I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me. -- Julianne Moore
  • The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality. -- Frances Lear
  • As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish. -- Susan Glaspell
  • I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. -- Michael Douglas
  • Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence. -- Jimmy Carr
  • All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one, -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy ! -- Benjamin Franklin
  • In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy. -- Sally Kirkland
  • What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age. -- Caryl Rivers
  • The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. -- Janet Flanner
  • Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them. -- Aziz Ansari
  • I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. -- Andie MacDowell
  • The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older. -- Idina Menzel
  • The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful. -- Kathleen Turner
  • I am very lucky to be man because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult. -- Ian Mckellen
  • Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat. -- Jacqueline Bisset
  • Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet. -- Deborah Moggach
  • Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder. -- Miuccia Prada
  • There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should. -- William H. Macy
  • New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture. -- Sarah Lafleur
  • All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger. -- Reem Acra
  • What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older. -- Jill Clayburgh
  • As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years. -- Melinda McGraw
  • I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them. -- Julia Roberts
  • Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture. -- Eleanor Clift
  • I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age. -- Tina Fey
  • I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact. -- Betty White
  • I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman. -- Patrick Dempsey
  • You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it. -- Jamie Hince
  • I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that. -- Charlize Theron
  • Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. -- Bette Davis
  • I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive. -- Naveen Andrews
  • 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
  • Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.' -- Kathy Lette
  • As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger. -- Reem Acra
  • I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy. -- Alan Jackson
  • As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers. -- Natalie Dormer
  • Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. -- George Jean Nathan
  • I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. -- Darren Aronofsky
  • The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older. -- David Eddings
  • 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
  • Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older. -- Marcus Buckingham
  • I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it. -- Claudia Kennedy
  • I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
  • 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. -- Thomas Haden Church
  • I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now. -- Andie MacDowell
  • 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. -- Margaret Cho
  • I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen. -- Christine Bottomley
  • 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. -- Kate Zambreno
  • It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older. -- Julie Walters
  • I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know. -- Judy Horacek
  • I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
  • I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born. -- Jessie Pavelka
  • Maud: Young women are never happy.Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic." -- Caryl Churchill
  • We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown. -- Elizabeth Janeway
  • Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older. -- Isabella Rossellini
  • The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people. -- Heidi
  • Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing. -- Sarah Lafleur
  • Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. -- Germaine Greer
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