Older Women's League

Older Women's League

OWL - The Voice of Midlife and Older Women was founded in 1980 (as the Older Women’s League) after a White House mini-conference on aging in Des Moines, Iowa. It was founded by Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields.

Read more about Older Women's League:  Founding, Mission, Education and Advocacy, Funding

Famous quotes containing the words older, women and/or league:

    “The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not get been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a women want?””
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best—it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money—provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don’t need it.”
    —Peter De Vries (b. 1910)