Dreams Quote by Gail Sheehy

“Something I did not know at twenty,” said Nikys slowly, “that I do know at thirty, is that when a woman marries a man,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“The illusions of the twenties, however, may be essential to infuse our first commitments with excitement and intensity, and to sustain us in those…

— Gail Sheehy

“Some day the marriageable age for women will be advanced from twenty to thirty, and the old maid line will be changed from thirty…

— Edna Ferber

“For many, the twenties seem like the time of infinite possibility, although in retrospect a woman will almost always idealize her thirties.”

— Mireille Guiliano

“My twenties revolved around dreaming, but once I reached my thirties I realized quickly reality sucks and dreams don’t come true.”

— C.V. Hunt

“She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five...she says women change so much in their twenties, they…

— Jane Green

“It seemed like everything I knew at twenty-five morphed into everything I didn't know by twenty-six, when I was suddenly hit with the realization…

— Renée Carlino

“A young person always extrapolates human reality from her own life.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym

“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

“...your twenties are the years when a man wends and wanders, searching for who knows what - we say money or love or adventure,…

— Brian Doyle

“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