“The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.”
“When you're on the other side of it," she says, "fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes.”
“He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.”
“fifty-story skyscrapers stood side by side with older ten-story buildings like fathers and sons at the urinal together.”
“I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age.”
“One wanted fifty pairs of eyes to see with, she reflected. Fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one woman with, she thought.”