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.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.
Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.
My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.
Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.
You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.
Age is a chronological number. That's all. There is plenty of time for my life afterwards. I'm still a young woman.