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«I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise... twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.»
Author: Aretha Franklin | About: Age | Keywords: old woman, sixty-five, twenty-six
«I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.»
Author: Chavela Vargas | About: Life, Men and Women | Keywords: old woman
«Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.»
«I get to be a kid now, because I wasn't a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I'm like an old woman-lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.»
Author: Drew Barrymore (Actress) | About: Age, Children | Keywords: old woman, shirt, T, The T, T shirt
«A forty year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.»
Author: Stendhal | Keywords: old woman
«If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Happiness | Keywords: hunting, old woman, on her own
«'But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn!'»
«Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.»
«An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.»
«A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.»

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