May Sarton Quotes

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.

All the old clichés about women need to be undone. Enough already. We're in the other position now. We are desirable older, we can date younger guys and it's not this big taboo. Men have been doing this for years.