Age Empowerment Quotes

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.

If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

I know, normally folks on TV wouldn't readily admit their age, but since there's nothing you can do about it, you might as well own it and be happy.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women, it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'

Every age bracket has to be respected and it should be embraced naturally.

I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!

As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

I want to be the spokesman for the 40-and-older crowd, inspiring people to believe that no matter their age, they can be healthy and save their lives.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.