Woman's Life Quotes

I think we are not yet well aware that, unfortunately, we have a short time to be moms. This is not to suggest that we should rush to have children or do it in a crazy way. I think that's the most important decision of a woman's life.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

There are several occasions in the course of any woman's day when, without question, screaming is the appropriate response.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

It certainly changes your life. So that may be a cliché, but I think any woman would say that [day when her baby born] would have been the most special day of their life.

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

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.

I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!

Old age is a woman's hell.