Grace Kelly Quotes

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.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

Chinese people age overnight.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.

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

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

Republicans tend to be grumpy old men.

Possibly the presence of women as voters would tend still further to promote order than has been done by the ballot …. If men choose to say that women are not their equals, women have nothing to do but to give in. Physical force, the ultimate basis of all society and all government, must be on the side of the men; and those who have the key of the position will not consent permanently to abandon it.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don't look at men that way.

As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard's 'Women & Power: A Manifesto' brought me a sense of solidarity, power and determination.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

I'm 28 years old. In my country, that's considered very young. It's almost like the youth don't matter to the up-and-ups.