“Shall I tell you about getting older? When you get older, 45 plus, men stop fancying you. Or put it another way, the men I fancy don't fancy me. I want a young man. I love beauty. So what's new?”

—  Susan Sontag

Source: "Finding fact from fiction", The Guardian (27 May 2000) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/may/27/fiction.features

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Nov. 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Shall I tell you about getting older? When you get older, 45 plus, men stop fancying you. Or put it another way, the me…" by Susan Sontag?
Susan Sontag photo
Susan Sontag168
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004

Related quotes

Heidi Klum photo

“The ultimate beauty secret for a woman getting older is, Don't be too thin! When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK. Life is about change. I don't have anxiety about it, so I'm not running to get Botox. Maybe that will change, but I don't think so. I feel comfortable in my skin and comfortable with aging, so I think it's OK that I get wrinkles.”

Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress

From Self Magazine, December 2010

Carrie Fisher photo

“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Jodi Picoult photo

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

John Suckling photo

“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”

John Suckling (1609–1642) English poet

Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white.
Other poems

Brandon Sanderson photo

“New tastes are like new ideas, young man -- the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Odeya Rush photo

“I try to never lose that part of me because I know that in the beginning, when you come to a new country, you want to feel comfortable and feel normal, but now as I get older, all I want to do is get back to it. It’s fun finding that balance in my journey.”

Odeya Rush (1997) Israeli actress

INTERVIEW: LET IT SNOW’S ODEYA RUSH https://brieftake.com/interview-let-it-snow-odeya-rush/ (November 8, 2019)

Ravi Zacharias photo

“I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

Jimmy John Liautaud photo

“I was at this fancy school and I felt out of place, so I rebelled. But Jim Lyons put his arm around me. He cared about me.”

Jimmy John Liautaud (1964) Jimmy John's Owner, Founder, & Chairman

Interview with New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/education/31jimmy.html

Sylvia Plath photo

“I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.

--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Milan Kundera photo

“what's the matter?" he asked
"nothing"
"what do you want me to do for you?"
"i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older"
what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Related topics