Quotes About Maturity

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

By 40, all women are amazing.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.