Aging Stigma Quotes

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don't want to talk about it, we don't think about it, and in many ways we treat elderly people as invisible because they are a constant reminder of our own mortality. We put them away and put them in retirement homes so we don't want to deal with that.

Not only do we suffer from racism and sexism, but we also suffer from ageism. And that is that once you reach a certain age, you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual and I think that's rather hideous. [...] I mean, is there a rule? Are you just supposed to die when you're 40?

Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.