People
- An old woman
- Old Woman (goddess), a divine hag in Irish and Scottish mythology
- The Old Woman, a fictional antagonist in David Gemmell's novel White Wolf
- Slang for a person (irrespective of age or sex) who is always complaining about his or her situation
- The mother-in-law (often referred to as the "old woman") in the 1915 optical illusion drawing "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" (also called the "Young Girl-Old Woman Illusion") by Ely William Hill based on an earlier 1888 German postcard
- Fictional character in
- "There Was An Old Woman (disambiguation)", nursery rhyme series
- "The Old Woman in the Wood", German fairytale by the Brothers Grimm
- "The Old Woman and the Doctor", c.5th century BCE Greek story in Aesop's Fables
- Old Woman Frying Eggs, 1618 painting by Diego Velazquez
- Old Woman of Arles, 1888 portrait by Vincent van Gogh
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.”
—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)
“It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)