Kristin Hersh Quotes

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

I'm so excited for 30. I hear it's OK. I'll probably do the same stuff, but I'll be more comfortable being who I am.

Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.