“Otis, it's perfectly normal for a younger man to be sexually attracted to a mature woman. In fact, when you stigmatize his choice, then you feed into an unhealthy narrative on masculinity in middle age.”— Laurie Nunn, Jean Milburn, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“Dr. Frasier Crane: Niles, I'm 41. That's hardly middle-aged. Middle age is more like 50, 55. Dr. Niles Crane: Only if you live to be 110.”— Sy Dukane, Denise Moss, Frasier Crane, Kelsey Grammer, imdb.com
“We’ve been living in a world run by Afflecks for so long, will we even know ourselves when they’re gone?”— Naomi Fry, newyorker.com
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com