Jane Wiedlin Quotes

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

I've always looked old for my age.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

I love being in my forties. Just getting there and realising that you haven't grown horns or boils on your bum, when all the time it had been this thing looming in the future, is such a relief.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

I started out with this 'La Boheme' fantasy, but as you get older, the 'La Boheme' fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

Nobody stays young forever.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

Some feel old at 45.

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.