If older women lusting after younger men are called…

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

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

— Robert Farrar Capon

In the dark, all cats are grey.

— Benjamin Franklin

The vast majority of my fan mail comes from older women and gay men.

— Kelvin Fletcher

What the hell is wrong with you people? Every famous nigga that gets arrested is not Nelson Mandela! Yes, the government conspires to put…

— Huey Freeman

“[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who…

— Dalma Heyn

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise…

— Thomas Haden Church

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…

— Marion Bailey

Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body… Astonishingly, even women's…

— Elinor Guggenheimer

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

— Hannah Gadsby

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…

— Kelela

“Though Jones had formerly believed himself in the very prime of youth and vigor, his first encounter with Lady Bellaston both vexed and puzzled…

— Henry Fielding

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…

— Vita Sackville-West

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

— Frances Lear

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

— Kristin Scott Thomas