When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Quote by Gail Sheehy

Topics: Retirement Quotes

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of...

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...

Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's...

Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's...

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep...

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep...

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are...

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are...

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no...

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no...

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism...

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism...

The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom...

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom...

My resolution's placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to...

My resolution's placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the...

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the...

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.