In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’
Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
All my staff is male and the same age group as me.
One thing I’ve learned to do with my age, I really don’t look ahead. For years, I’ve been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.
I feel that confidence in women – especially young girls of color – but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.
I was very immature – who isn’t at age 12? Let’s be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.
There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
From the age of seven, I was destined to be a legend, to be the world’s most popular fighter.
I’m more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.
I’ve always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.
Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
If you’re 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is ‘age appropriate’? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what’s middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.
A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
I will definitely get married, but it is not that it has to happen at a certain age.
There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.
I’m a big believer that as you age, you need to stretch more.
