Children Quote by Irène Némirovsky

“she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.”

— André Aciman

“Is this one blushing with shame? No, she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.”

— André Aciman

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

“As she sat opposite to her glass, relieving her head from its garniture of false hair, she acknowledged to herself that age was coming…

— Anthony Trollope

“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

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

— Marcel Proust

“This is so obviously about me needing a mother figure, she thought, disgusted with herself. I wonder if I’m going to get swoony around…

— Rainbow Rowell

I'm not ashamed of my age or anything like that, but for women - and everybody knows it and acts like they don't -…

— Janelle James

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

“Women might not like to admit their age, but men don't like to act theirs.”

— Jill Shalvis

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim