Aging Quote by Doris Lessing

“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

“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 thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

— Cherie Priest

“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

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far…

— Cecelia Ahern

“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged”

— Virginia Woolf

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure…

— Anonymous

“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

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

— Gertrude Atherton

“Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of nowhere and…

— B.J. Novak

Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead of her,…

— Tom Junod

“She was unlike most girls of her age, in this--that she had ideas of her own.”

— Wilkie Collins