Mark Barrowcliffe Quotes

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

I love older men.

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.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther, either.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

I prefer girls who are young.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

I only seem to date younger women.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.