Age-Based Discrimination Quotes

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

There are some people who cannot watch every film because of age. They might watch only three films in a year.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

A 75-year-old man doesn't need maternity leave or maternity care. A young person doesn't need geriatric care.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.

Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Ageism is something that does exist.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!

People think you're 30 and think you're old. I hate that.

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.