Samantha Bond Quotes

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

People tell me the 50s are the best time - I'm ready! That whole stigma of being over 40 and not being sexy anymore is fake news. We're more vibrant because we have experience; we know our bodies.

I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's nothing sexier than life experience, and there's nothing sexier than knowing your own body and having a little bit of experience with that.

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

It was only when I got to 21 that my personality started coming out a little bit more.

I have managed to get through that tricky turn into your 50s with two great roles. It is great to see characters for women of a certain age.