Quotes & Poems About Being An Older Woman

Feel absolutely free to post a quote or poem you created about being an older woman, and credit your name. 


"Gentle older women are like water on the edges of oceans. They are foam and mist after years of traveling miles."   
~Deborah Marchant'




The Dance 
by C.K. Williams


A middle-aged woman, quite plain, to be polite about it, and 
somewhat stout, to be more courteous still,
but when she and the rather good-looking, 
much younger man 
she's with get up to dance, 
her forearm descends with such delicate
lightness, such restrained
but confident ardor athwart his shoulder,
drawing him to her with such a firm, 
compelling warmth, and 
moving him with effortless grace
into the union she's instantly established
with the not at all rhythmically solid
music in this second-rate cafe. 


that something in the rest of us, 
some doubt about ourselves, 
some sad conjecture, 
seems to be allayed.
nothing that we'd ever thought of as 
a real lack, nothing not to be
admired or be repentent for, 
but something to which we've never
adequately given credence, 
which might have consoling implications
about how we misbelieve ourselves, 
and so the world, 
that world beyond us which so often 
disappoints, but which sometimes
shows us, lovely, what we are. 






August Third
by May Sarton


These days
Lifting myself up
Like a heavy weight, 
Old camel getting to her knees, 
I think of my mother
And the inexhaustible flame
That kept her alive
Until she died. 


She knew all about fatigue
And how one pushes it aside
For staking up the lilies
Early in the morning, 
The way one pushes it aside
For a friend in need, 
For a hungry cat.


Mother, be with me. 
Today on your birthday 
I am older than you were
When you died
Thirty-five years ago.
Thinking of you
The old camel gets to her knees,
Stands up, 
Moves forward slowly
Into the new day.


If you taught me one thing
It was never to fail life.  






An Old Lady's Poem
by Anonymous 


http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/AnOldLadysPoem.html