When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
