“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”
— Colette
L'Envers du music hall (Music Hall Sidelights), "On Tour" (1913)
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Tracey Ullman (1959) English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author and businesswoman
Quoted in 2009 in The Many States of Tracey Ullman https://tracey-archives.tumblr.com/post/119868522838/the-many-funny-states-of-tracey-ullman
“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
Virginia Woolf book Three Guineas
Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 3, p. 109
Context: The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.
“I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches a certain age she likes, she should stick with it.”
Eva Gabor (1919–1995) Hungarian actress and businesswoman
As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 18
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men