Mariella Frostrup Quotes

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29... What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my gosh, are you worried?" questions? Worried? What about? Thirty-eight, 39, 40, 50! Great! Still alive!

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

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.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

I don't have any issues with my age.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

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

You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.

I don't think that I'm old.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.