Older woman Quote by Frances Hardinge

“What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as…

— Kate Chopin

“She was only twenty-two, and although she had not been gently used, it would be quite a few years before men stopped buying jewelry…

— Dean Koontz

“It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could…

— Penni Russon

“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she…

— Rachel Autumn Deering

“To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Something, or someone, uncurled deep within her soul. A woman she barely recognized, who knew how to take what she wanted and asked for…

— Emma Hamm

“But the old woman said that some have no choice. She said that for the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“She didn’t look any older, so far as she could tell from the mirror, but her heart felt like somebody had been scraping the…

— Ursula Vernon

“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”

— Graham Swift

“I found my piece. She wasn't what I was expecting. If you formed a woman's soul out of black graphite, bathed it in blood,…

— Tarryn Fisher

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot