Candice Bergen

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

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

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.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

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.

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.