What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.
I was happy to be turning 40. It was a good one.
But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
I have a masters in African-American literature, and I got a Ph.D. in American Literature. I spent a number of years teaching as a professor in the university system. Then I turned forty and decided I was going to be the woman I wanted to be!
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.
