Gloria Steinem Quotes

Few people know how to be old.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

You can't be 16 forever.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

Old age is but a second childhood.

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

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

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

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.

Old age is second childhood.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The trick is growing up without growing old.