The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.
From Julianne Moore
If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.
I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.
Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.
My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.
Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.
My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.
I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.
I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.
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