Gloria Steinem Quotes

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

You have to embrace getting older.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!

As you get older, there are going to be a few more challenges, but thankfully I'm still feeling good.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.