Gloria Steinem Quotes

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.

In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

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.

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

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.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don't look at men that way.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they're 18 'till they're 50 years old and when they get wrinkles, they're 'character lines.' But when girls get 'em, they're wrinkles!

There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn't get signed. They didn't say I was ugly. They didn't say that they didn't like the music. They said I was too old! At 26! So Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, Elbow, James Blunt - you can be a gnarly old beardy bloke with a bit of a paunch and that's all right?

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.