Before Quote by Sandra Tsing Loh

I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my grandchildren would…

— George Monbiot

I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.

— Cornelia Parker

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

— Arthur Golden

In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last…

— Lewis Black

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part…

— Anonymous

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over…

— Kim Harrison

I developed claustrophobia when I was about seven. And I am no stranger to panic attacks.

— Rebecca Front

When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn't, it was a thyroid condition.

— Shaun Ryder

Was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

— Woody Allen

My mum and grandmother didn't start their menopause until their early fifties.

— Amanda Redman

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention.…

— Bel Kaufman

My slightly scary moment while travelling was when I decided to run across the Golden Gate Bridge in California. The weather was unbearably cold,…

— Nikita Dutta