Old Women Quotes

“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!”
― Stephen Richards

“(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society's double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women and then obscenely into old women, they can become women much earlier -- and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.”
― Susan Sontag

“A woman sat alone at her dining table, reading and drinking a cocktail. It’d be such a relief to be older already, unburdened by the pressure to leverage your ever-fleeting beauty for whatever.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“You can introduce him to Ana Kuya.”
“I already unleashed Baghra on Nikolai. He’s going to think I stockpile vicious old women.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Old women’s houses feel like the safest place on earth. A shrine to functional femininity.”
― Nicole J. Georges, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home – A Graphic Memoir of Codependence, Compassion, and the Portland Punk Scene

“To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be translated.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Old women look all innocent and goody-two-shoes, but then they level some all-knowing eyes on your ass.”
― Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles

“They were, in fact and at last, free. And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes -- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“I’m never decent, but I’m always ready for company”
― Lyssa Mia Smith, Revelle

“Dear God but I despair of these women who abandon their filters in age and just say whatever comes into their heads.”
― Patrick McGrath, Last Days in Cleaver Square

“He thought how the world would feel if it were populated solely by elderly women--a world of forbearance, where all touches were careful.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

“She’s not out of control, Dad,” Lucy de-escalates. “She’s just not backing down.”
― Anna Gard, No Such Thing: Resistance Begins at Home