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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

I think older women still have a full life.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Women are over 50 percent of the population.

Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'