Nora Ephron Quotes

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

Some people think that I must be ancient because I've been in the business for so long, others still think of me as a waif and assume that I'm too young for certain roles. Starting out at such an early age seems to have worked against me.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

Everyone talks about 40 like it's massive, but I looked at Joanna Lumley at the Ab Fab premiere the other day, and she looks amazing at 70 - that's 30 years older than 40, which sounds ridiculous. The number doesn't matter; it's what's going on for you.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!

I know I look super young.

I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.