Concerned Quote by Ihara Saikaku

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in…

— Helen Garner

“Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in…

— Pamela Redmond Satran

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

— Rudyard Kipling

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other…

— Mary Gaitskill

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that…

— Naomi Wolf

“It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they think we…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

— Frances Lear

As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding…

— Sarah Silverman

“Women are afraid of the intensity of feeling that may surface as their eyes are opened to the wider reality of a woman’s life.…

— Patricia Lynn Reilly

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as…

— Margaret M. Lock

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

— Samuel Johnson