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Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.


Ian Fleming
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There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
Tori Amos
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Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.


Eileen Myles
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We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.


Kristin Scott Thomas
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Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.
Isabella Rossellini
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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.


Gail Sheehy
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I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.
Cindy Gallop
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Alice Walker
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
Francesca Annis
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
Naomi Watts
I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
Mary McCarthy
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Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
Germaine Greer
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How do I think the industry's changed? Films have changed a lot. I think women are finally able to get older and be sexy just like men. So I'm really enjoying that part - that's my evolution.
Andie MacDowell
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Women are women, and hurray for that.


John Galliano
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.


Erica Jong
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There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.
Jo Brand
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I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.
Christine Lagarde
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I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
Kathleen Turner
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