Insult Quote by Gregory Maguire

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“The old woman nods and settles back in her chair. She seems to approve. Molly feels some of the tension leave her shoulders. “Excuse…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Old age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind (...).”

— Penelope Lively

“When I saw her in the light she was quite an old woman, fifty years old at least. But I went ahead and did…

— George Orwell

“She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have…

— Jenny Downham

“I do not like being an old gal. But I've decided to be the best old gal I know how to be. ”

— Joanna Gnadt

“Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all…

— Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to…

— David Dabydeen

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Her old body against his old body, unbeautiful in aging. But together, they were still beautiful, somehow.”

— Lauren Groff

“I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.”

— Christina Stead