I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Glamorized... am I glamorous?
When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
