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- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I'm not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I was working with people my own age, so it was kind of a lot of goofing around.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020