“When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?” — Candice Bergen

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.