Betty Friedan Quotes

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

It's weird how people hate getting older.

Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

You get old, you slow down.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

It sucks getting old.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

The only thing some people do is get older.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!