It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
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belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
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..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
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Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
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Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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