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"Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me."
Time
"Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans."
Dream
"I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did."
Being
"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
Woman
"Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly."
Age
"I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home."
Home
"Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick."
Love
"I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles."
Age
"Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?"
Woman
"I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot."
Today
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