It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
From Gail Sheehy
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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