James Thurber Quotes

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

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

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

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

I've been blessed enough where all the rules that come with age don't apply to me. People were saying I was old at 32.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.

Chinese people age overnight.

We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

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

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.