Quote by James Thurber

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But

Summary

This quote humorously highlights the societal obsession with age and the limitations it places on individuals. The speaker, expressing their frustration, suggests that our perception of age restricts and categorizes people based on society's standards. They question why we quantify everything, including time and age, and points out the disparity in how women are generally perceived during a specific period of their lives. Through this quote, the speaker challenges the rigidity of age-based expectations and emphasizes the need for a more flexible and inclusive perspective on aging.

Topics

Women

By James Thurber

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Fear

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their for

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Italian Proverb

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve o

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham

Work

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

Family

Two things greater Than all things are; And the first is lov

Two things greater Than all things are; And the first is love And the second is war.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Movies

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

Future

In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is a

In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase with the warning 'do not eat this bookcase -- it can be harmful to your health'.

Bureaucracy

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live eit

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Life Boredom Misery Meaning

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and m

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

Beauty Society Advertising Self Esteem Body Image Eating Disorders

Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never s

Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.

Nature Beauty Virtues