Lying About Your Age Quotes

“I remembered the hotel drinks with the married man, when he'd eagerly asked me if I wanted children. And now here was this man, neurotically lying about his age. I'd spent a lot of my life being cautioned to avoid being a certain kind of woman: needy, desperate, hungry for commitment and babies, terrified of my age. Only now was it starting to occur to me that these female clichés had all been created by men, and perhaps, like many writers, they'd simply been describing themselves and projecting their worst characteristics.”
― Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

“The great wisdom of ageing is to be as forthcoming as a Freemason when people ask how old you are.”
― Stewart Stafford