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.