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My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.

But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.