“No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.”
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“We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.”
“The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.”
“Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.”
“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”
“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.”
“One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.”
“I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.”
“Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.”
“People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.”
“There's a small club of women who are willing to age.”
“I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.”
“I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.”
“In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.”
“I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.”
“Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.”
“About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.”
“I feel more mature than most people my age.”
“Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.”
“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.”
“I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.”
“I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.”
“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”
“I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.”