Geoff Dyer (1958) English writer
Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 165
“For a woman, forty is torture, the end. I think turning forty is miserable.”
Kelly (1969) in interview with William B. Arthur. Cited in: James Spada (1988) Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. p. 280
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The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
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Betty Friedan book The Fountain of Age
Preface.
The Fountain of Age (1993)
Context: What had really caused the women’s movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women’s life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn’t live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was “the problem that had no name.” Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.