Female Aging Quotes

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.

Not for one second do I not, like, pinch myself that I've had a successful acting career for 24 years. I am so grateful. But it's unfortunate that we live in a society that really puts a lot of pressure on women to look a certain way and to age a certain way. I think that sucks.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead of her, she was deemed to be at the end of something--namely, everything society valued in her, other than her success as a mother.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

There's a lot of criticism on how an actress is aging. Why do we do that with women? I work with a lot of men who take terrible care of themselves - they drink too much, or they eat too much. We need to allow women to age.

I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.

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

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

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

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!

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition