“Oh, my God. You're so old. From afar, I was like, okay, she's cute. But up close? You don't have crow's feet. You have crow's face.”— Molly Smith Metzler, Theo's Girlfriend, Brittney Berault, imdb.com
“On agism, I don't think anyone can deny there is a certain amount of agism in the industry. You can just look at the median age of new hires of just about every Silicon Valley company. I suspect many, if not most, have median hiring ages well below 30.”— Jeff Nelson, quora.com
“Society’s obsession with the way women look is less about beauty than about obedience to a punishing external standard — and power. When women compete to ‘stay young,’ we collude in our own disempowerment. When we rank other women by age, we reinforce ageism, sexism, lookism and patriarchy. What els…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“One thing we can all agree on, though? Aging is harder for women. We bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth and youth with power — the double-whammy of ageism and sexism. How do we cope? We splurge on anti-aging products. We fudge or lie about our age. We diet, we exercise, we get plump…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“Maybe a wise grandpa made sense to them. But grandma? In the Oval Office? Shaking their heads. Does. Not. Compute. America worships youthful femininity, and our pop culture, if not our policies, idolizes mom. But what do we do with women once they’re not in either of those roles? We minimize and ign…”— Petula Dvorak, washingtonpost.com
“No one has talked about this much, but it’s a very real phenomenon in this election. The presidential nominee is confounding America because she represents a demographic that our culture secretly dislikes: older women.”— Petula Dvorak, washingtonpost.com