You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.
The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.
Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.
It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.
I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.
I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.
[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.
I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.
People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.
Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man.
I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.
If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.
At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.
I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.
I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.
When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.
The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
