Top 45 Older Women Quotes

I’m absolutely certain that audiences want to see older women on their TVs.

I want all women – teens, young women, older women, pregnant women, ageing women – to love and accept themselves.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

I really think it would be useful if society stopped vilifying older women.

So many people put older women out to pasture.

In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don’t know if it’s because older women are more confident, or just that we don’t care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

It’s such a challenging time, and in my small way, I will make it so that other younger women, and maybe older women, will be able to do the things they want to do, and accept themselves and their experience.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don’t have such a huge age gap as we’re used to seeing in films.

If you’ve got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets – imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels.

That conversation about ‘roles for women,’ generally – ‘roles for older women.’ It’s like, let’s please not dig into that one any more, you know?

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it’s time the world lets older women age gracefully.

In the entertainment industry women are often judged. They judge bigger women, they judge black women, and older women too. We just don’t do that in drag. Drag is open to everyone, regardless of gender, body shape or age.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women’s clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn’t want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.

Certain roles for older women are aimed at certain older actresses – I’m not one of those. I’ve been offered any number of Puerto Rican grandmas that I’ve turned down.

It’s true, I’ve become one of those grumpy older women.

Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too – because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they’re not getting the roles they should.

I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

It seems that the ideal age for a Bollywood heroine is 24, which is great, but it would be nice to see some older women too on the big screen.

I’ve always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother’s friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field – older women, older artists, Miles Davis.

There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing ‘Carmen,’ and I’m considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.

We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Thank God we’re not like America. Everyone wants to look like they’re 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It’s about the one dimension; it’s about the lack of any texture.

I’ve always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence – qualities older women possess. They’ve been on the Earth a little longer. They’re more seasoned. They don’t play games. They know what they want, and they’re not afraid to tell you.

I’m drawn to female stories, of which there aren’t that many, and particularly to stories now about older women. The things they have to confront and override is really fascinating. That’s a whole untold part of our world.

I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

It’s taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.

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.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me – their experience makes them better.

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

Older women are like aging strudels – the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.