Melissa De Sousa Quotes

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

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

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.

When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.

I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.

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.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time either by myself or with my mom. But when I hit high school, she really became one of my close friends.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.