It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself.
~ Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
~ Rita Mae Brown
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.
~ Margaret Gatty
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.
~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
~ Madeleine L'engle
Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.
~ Shirley Lord
We are always the same age inside.
~ Gertrude Stein
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
~ Sophia Loren
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.
~ Flannery O'connor
There are no old people nowadays they are either wonderful for their age or dead.
~ Mary Pettibone Poole
For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.
~ May Sarton
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
~ Muriel Spark
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
~ Gloria Steinem
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine
In youth we learn in age we understand.
~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
~ Raquel Welch
Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.
~ Molly Yard
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
~ Nancy Astor
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
~ Margaret Atwood
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
~ Lauren Bacall
Youth is not a time of life it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt your fear your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
~ Luella F. Phean
We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
~ Joan Rivers
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
~ William Shakespeare
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
~ Frances Ridley Havergal
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
~ Kate Seredy
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
~ William Wrigley
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
~ Christian Bovee
I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.
~ Mary Garden
Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.
~ Samuel Butler
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.
~ Michelangelo
Strong people don't need strong leaders.
~ Ella Baker
