Displeasure Quote by Victor LaValle

“Society tended to dismiss and ignore older women. Big mistake. Never underestimate a woman due to her age. Every word made me love and…

— HelenKay Dimon

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

— Thomas Nelson Page

“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

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

“...women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone.…

— Margaret Atwood

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

— Anita Roddick

“All those years were now seeming like a betrayal of what she really was. While her body, her needs, her emotions–all of herself–had been…

— Doris Lessing

“Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's…

— R. Scott Bakker

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to…

— John Calvin

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days.…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman…

— Adela Rogers St. Johns

“She had, she declared, "no patience with women whom I hear telling what wonders they would do if they were only men, when I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust