“Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.” IfsMenWellsStillsAgeBeautifulYoungSexWomenEmbraceFatsOld AgeAppealsPreservesWearyMasculinitySex Appeal Book:August: Osage County (TCG Edition) Source: August: Osage County (TCG Edition)
“I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.” PeopleYearsSaidFactsAgeBeautifulThreeBecomingTwentiesOld AgeThree YearsThree Year Olds Book:Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide Source: Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide
“Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.” WorldCountrySometimesDoneAgeBeautifulPleasureDealsKnowingSickOld AgeSomedayVery BeautifulStrangenessDislocation Author:Grace Paley
“A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.” Has BeensAgeBeautifulYoungAgingUglyGravesOld AgeYoung And Beautiful Author:Thomas Hardy