Karen Bender Quotes

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

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

Age for me is just a number.

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

I think when you get to a certain age, older people become more emotional than younger people.

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.

I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Age affects how people experience time.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.