Age Quote by Samuel Johnson

“A respectable old man gives the following sensible account of the method he pursued when educating his daughter. "I endeavoured to give both to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking…

— Mark Hanna

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

— Shelagh Delaney

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men,…

— Carl Jung

“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally produces dependence…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“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 never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

— Shelagh Delaney

“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their own healthiest…

— Colette Dowling

“Existentialist literature provides a more satisfactory account of the persistence of feminine narcissism. Simone de Beauvoir makes use of the existentialist conception of 'situation'…

— Sandra Lee Bartky

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political…

— Madame de Stael

“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of…

— Francis Wyndham

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us…

— Gustave Flaubert