Alice Walker Quotes

Some feel old at 45.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

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

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

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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

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.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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

Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.

I used to think 63 was old.

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

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

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

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

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

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

Age is not our fault.