At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.