Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

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.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.