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" As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash. "

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" I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. "

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" There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. "

" People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present. "

" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. "

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" 'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them. "

" We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. "

" It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast. "

" My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that. "

" As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected. "

" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "

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" In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. "

" Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. "

" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

" I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions. "

" Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. "

" Age is inevitable. Aging isn't. "

" Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them. "

" It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn. "

" Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

" How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. "

" With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. "

" Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets. "

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" Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. "

" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

" American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. "

" Old age and the passage of time teach all things. "

" When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy. "

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" For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "

" Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. "