"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened. "

                                                                              Cora Harvey Armstrong

 "The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."

                                                                             Helen Hayes (at 73)

"I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows."

                                                                                     Janette Barber

"Whoever thought up the word ‘Mammogram’? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone."

                                                                                           Jan King

"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."

                                                                                     Lily Tomlin

"You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears."

                                                                                       Geri Jewell

"A male gynaecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car."

                                                                                    Carrie Snow

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends."

                                                                                   Laurie Kuslansky

"My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."

                                                                                  Erma Bombeck

"Old age ain't no place for sissies."

                                     Bette Davis

"A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't."

                                                                   Rhonda Hansome

"The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant."

                                                      Jane Sellman

"Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows."

                                                                                    Jennifer Unlimited

"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

                                                                Charlotte Whitton

"Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart."

                                                                  Caryn Leschen

"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."

                                                                    Jennifer Unlimited

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."

                                                                       Catherine Aird

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I'm also not blonde."

                                          Dolly Parton

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."