Vivica A. Fox Quotes

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

I think a woman can come into her power at any age.

I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.

Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism that has made forty-two-year-old women so desirable.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.

It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

I want to keep everyone happy but at the same time I also have to be confident with what I'm putting out and be secure with it.

It's interesting because First Wives Club was the first movie that made a shitload of money that starred all women over a certain age. That was a milestone that made you think, "Oh, things are going to change."

I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.