Gloria Steinem Quotes

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Aging is a synonym for living.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Few people know how to be old.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I feel old.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

Turns out I'm getting old.