Sam Keen Quotes

So many people put older women out to pasture.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Heck, I feel guilty getting my senior discounts.

I have been around for 33 years and I don't have a filmy background. I don't know if I am an insider or an outsider but I have never felt any discrimination.

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.