Elderly Women Quotes

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.

... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.

I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.

Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

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

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.