Age Quote by Virginia Woolf

“When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey, her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things…

— Virginia Woolf

“in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not—and yet she regarded herself in…

— Kij Johnson

“She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. ‘I didn’t want to kill anybody.’…

— Agatha Christie

“How constantly in her triumph would she be able to forget all his vices, his debts, his gambling, his late hours, and his cruel…

— Anthony Trollope

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“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

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“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

“No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company…

— Janet Wallach

“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams…

— Julie Lessman

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite,…

— Isabel Allende

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather