Maids Quote by Louisa May Alcott

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“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

“Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age is truly…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“When a woman turns forty she is no longer young, but not yet old.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“I made love to a woman 20 years older than me. The impressive part is that I was only eleven at the time. I…

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old…

— C.S. Lewis

“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

“We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a specially dangerous…

— Rose Macaulay

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

— Mireille Guiliano

“These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves…

— Miriam Karmel