ageism
Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.
— Ashton Applewhite
People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence
— Goitsemang Mvula
Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)
— Richie Norton
So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show.... It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?
— Barbara Delinsky
Success is not about age, it's about action.
— Richie Norton
THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...
— Robert Wesley Miller
The good thing about being old is not being young.
— Stephen Richards
The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
— Barbara Delinsky
The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.
— J.S.B. Morse
This combination of ageism and sexism was also blatant in the Boston Herald's treatment of sixty-three-year-old Elizabeth Warren, whose 2012 Senate bid it sought to undermine by repeatedly dubbing her "Granny" in its pages, as if to imply that an older woman could not possibly be trusted with political responsibility.
— Laura Bates
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