“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.”
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“I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.”
“When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.”
“We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.”
“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”
“In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.”
“Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.”
“I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.”
“When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.”
“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
“I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.”
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
“You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.”
“America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.”
“I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.”
“I think I'm past the age of getting lost.”
“I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.”
“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'”
“It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.”
“No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.”
“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”
“With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.”
“Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.”
“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”