1.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
2.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
3.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
4.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Erica Jong)
5.
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.