The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual. Pankaj Mishra academicageassassinate share on social
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying. Geraldine Brooks adolescenceafraidage share on social
My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it. Sophie Kennedy Clark agebitebrother Change image and share on social
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. Henri Frederic Amiel agefeelinterest Change image and share on social
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. Navjot Singh Sidhu ageextinguisherfire Change image and share on social
What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other. Heather Brooke ageconnectinstantly Change image and share on social
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. James Ellroy agecasualtyearly Change image and share on social
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. Jamie Lee Curtis ageagingback Change image and share on social
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. Rita Dove ageapprehensivefear Change image and share on social
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others. Maggie Smith ageaudienceawful Change image and share on social
