“No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.”

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”

“The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.”

“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”

“Old women should not seek to be perfumed.”

“Young women have more choices to make today about what to be. One of those choices is activist.”

“You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?”

“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”