Age Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“…her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.”

— Jane Austen

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like.”

— Stephen King

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her…

— Zen Cho

“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“she could not be less than seventy-three or -four, and to judge by her appearance, altered though it was by illness and makeup, she…

— Diane Setterfield

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“seventeen, tells her”

— Jennifer Weiner

“I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I’d since…

— Marshall Thornton

“When a woman turns forty she is no longer young, but not yet old.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick