“At 65, I’m coming back with a vengeance. I’d like to be a Simone Signoret-type actress with the big old hooded eyes and kind of overweight and craggy, with gray hair.”
–actress Jodie Foster (above), 42, on her infrequent screen appearances, in More
“Five years ago, nobody would ask you about hands. Now they say, `Look at my veins. Look at my brown spots.'”
–Marjory Nigro, a Houston dermatologist, about Baby Boomer women’s increased interest in hand plastic surgery, in Newsweek
“Women have more choices. They can opt out of the workplace. I don’t think there’s a deep embarrassment for a woman who says she doesn’t have a career … But a man has got a lot more pressure. If he opts out then he’s called a loser–by both men and women.”
–Marian Salzman, executive vice president at the ad agency JWT Worldwide, in Across The Board
“Writing is the only way I’ve ever gained clarity. I don’t go through life with a lot of clear-formed thoughts. It’s not till I sit down and write that I really know what I think.”
–Joan Didion, on “The Year of Magical Thinking,” which chronicles Didion’s grief over the death of her husband, in Time
“Our type of marriage is being left behind now. More and more they’re deciding for themselves. After all, they have to live together. It’s their decision. But it would also be nice if we help them.”
–Muzeyyen Geridonmez, a mother in Turkey, discussing the trend away from arranged marriages, in The Washington Post
“Why do we all go out to this public place and spend a bunch of money to try and have an intimate moment? We’re interested in exploring that kind of wastefulness.”
–Chelsea Cutler, co-creator of the Sandbox Theatre Project’s “Bottle Can Draft,” a look at the phenomenon of drunk singles looking for love, in Time Out Chicago
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Compiled by WomanNews staff
