Woman Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

— Chinese Proverbs

“Every elderly woman I've known has told me, at some point, and with varying degrees of wistfulness, that she's eighteen years old on the…

— Kate Morton

“She’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

“Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it's irreversible.”

— James Lee Burke

A woman has the age she deserves.

— Coco Chanel

“One age might pass over what another prized, and the next age might then revere it”

— Deborah Meyler

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

“At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be. At thirty they say nothing about…

— Louisa May Alcott

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

— Mary Kay Ash

“Feeling young and old at the same time is the present." From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood”

— Suzanne Braun Levine

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

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

— Jane Harvey-Berrick