Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
There's a small club of women who are willing to age.
It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.
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.
Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives.
When the women start to push 40, they're not single, fun girls around town any more.
A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.
I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.
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.
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.'
Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
I think women are so much more interesting and sexy in their 30s and 40s.
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
