Family Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly buried- in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's…

— R. Scott Bakker

“These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves…

— Miriam Karmel

“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin…

— Lai Wen

“In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel”

— M.R. Carey

“But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old…

— Jane Gardam

“old ladies were just young ladies who’d seen and done more stuff.”

— Linsey Hall

“No, it wasn't aging that made someone brittle, it was disappointment that did. It was allowing the world to make you smaller and smaller…

— Kathy Dunnehoff

“Like an old door, ever man past a certain age comes with historical warps and creaks of one kind or another, and a woman…

— Joseph O'Neill

“The old-fashioned bravado started pissing me off. I pierced my lips together as my nostrils flared. Over 100 years old and boys will still…

— C A Deyton

“There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and trouble, having…

— Thomas Hardy

“slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package…

— Don DeLillo