Therese Fowler Quotes

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

I've grown into a woman and formed my own opinions about the world around me.

There's so much to becoming a woman.

I'm a woman now.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn't get to be.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

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.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.

I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

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

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.