It is said that the longest ten years of a woman's life is between the
ages of 25 and 30 ...

Can you show how a woman's age changes relative to a more scientific
method, for example, carbon dating?

Bryan,

Many thanks for accepting as your answer my comment suggesting a way
to find out a woman's age. I've reposted the comment below:

I've found that one way you can get a reasonably true estimate of a
woman's age is to ask for her personal perspective on a certain
important moment of history. For example, if want to know
approximately how old a middle-aged American woman is, I might ask her
if she remembers where she was when she learned that President Kennedy
had been shot. I tried this once on a gal who was claiming to be
younger than her true age. She described how upset her high school
classmates had been when they learned of the Kennedy assassination.
Since she claimed to have been born in 1960, this seemed unlikely.
Gotcha!

A misogynist acquaintance of mine once told me that he thought the
most efficient way to learn a woman's age would be to cut her in half
and count the rings.

Best always,
Pink (older than dirt, yet younger than springtime)

Many thanks, Pink

Younger Than Springtime, huh?

Surely that was South Pacific?

And I always thought that Oklahoma was your territory?

What next?

All the Best

Bryan

I went to a rather strange school that reckoned life went in sevens

- oddly, that is one of the few things they got right

28 is a 'hit' year - when their biological clocks go wild

Ah!  Well, that explains something about a couple of years in my youth.
It would seem that girls live pretty fast between 25 and 30.
Why didn't Sinatra or his songwriter include "When I was thirty ..." in
"It was a very good year"?  (I know, it doesn't fit the metric foot  - and just 
begs to be rhymed with "dirty".)

Carbon 14 dating only works on biological material that is no longer
alive, and is notably inaccurate for anything less than a couple of
hundred years old, hardly useful in this case.

I always understood that a woman's 39th year was the longest in her
life, so I expect that any ten year period would have to include that
year  - and if she is a little canny, she may have a couple of long
years before that.
Let's say:  30 to 40.

(My wife was not at all pleased when I gave her book for women about
how life starts at 40.)

It always puzzles me when women lie about their age. I prefer to be
honest about my age (58), so that I can bask in the glory of being
told that I look younger than I am. Whether or not this is true, it's
nice to hear.

I've found that one way you can get a reasonably true estimate of a
woman's age is to ask for her personal perspective on a certain
important moment of history. For example, if want to know
approximately how old a middle-aged American woman is, I might ask her
if she remembers where she was when she learned that President Kennedy
had been shot. I tried this once on a gal who was claiming to be
younger than her true age. She described how upset her high school
classmates had been when they learned of the Kennedy assassination.
Since she claimed to have been born in 1960, this seemed unlikely.
Gotcha!

Hi Pink

While us poor men have struggled, you've done it again. 

Sherlock would have been impressed, as would Hercule (had he not met
his unfortunate death on the Orient Express). Yes, the real murderer
did away with Hercule and then took his place... The Perfect Crime.

Please post your Comment as an Answer!

Bryan

Many thanks for the five stars and the lavish tip! Regarding the
Younger Than Springtime/Oklahoma thing, I sometimes do tend to get my
Hodgers and Rammerstein mixed up.

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye!
~Pink