Quote by Virginia Woolf

“You know my mother thinks the waltz is indecent." "Your mother would find the sight of a chair leg indecent.”

— Elizabeth May

“Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who…

— Erin McCarthy

“It’s an age old story … Boy meets girl. Boy asks girl to touch him inappropriately. Girl dazzles boy with her impressive knowledge and…

— Katja Millay

“Women found old men amusing, I guessed. At my age, I had learned to discern passing amusement from any woman’s true romantic interest in…

— H.T. Night

“When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but…

— Nick Hornby

“When I get too old to go out and do things, I’ll close my eyes and be young again, in my mind at least.…

— K. Martin Beckner

“So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her finger and…

— Virginia Woolf

“I can’t believe I’m thirty-one-years-old, lying on my back on a pier in broad daylight--in my own hometown, I might add--trying to figure out…

— Donna Kauffman

“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone…

— Michael Thomas Ford

“I didn't know how to explain to him that for all that I still looked young, I had been feeling old. The years had…

— Christina Henry

“I was too fresh from childhood. Subconsciously, my deepest brain still a cupboard of fairy tales, I suppose I believed that if pretty woman…

— Lorrie Moore