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" Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason. "

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" People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them. "

" Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her. "

" Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. "

" I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives? "

" We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse. "

" I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up. "

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" My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment. "

" If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty. "

" Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career. "

" It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies. "

" One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change. "

" Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. "

" There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. "

" If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. "

" The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity. "

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" This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life. "

" Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. "

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" The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests. "

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" Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. "