Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in…

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm…

— Shakira

I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.

— Monica Bellucci

I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends…

— Mariella Frostrup

There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no…

— Barbara Crampton

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New…

— Meghan Daum

I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.

— Allison Janney

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and…

— Tyler Blackburn

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

— Chris Pine

I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock…

— Lisa Stansfield

I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you…

— Carl Froch

Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly…

— Ronald Searle

I think a lot of athletes when they get in their mid and late 30s, they focus more on kids, on family.

— Justin Gatlin

I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I will be known as…

— Patrick Duffy

In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had…

— Kiki Dee

Why do so many women drop out of the workforce at this age, in our late 30s, early 40s? Well, often it's because we're…

— Marielle Heller