Jane Fonda

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

American Actress

John Cameron Mitchell

Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

American Actor

Jane Pauley

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

American Journalist

David Bowie

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

English Musician

Harry Connick, Jr.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

American Musician

Mika

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

British Musician

Kyle Gass

I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.

Edward Norton

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

P. J. O'Rourke

American Comedian

Patrick Marber

English Writer

During midlife, people often reflect on past achievements and future goals.

Life Review

The term 'midlife crisis' can stereotype adults as being unhappy and making impulsive decisions.

Crisis Stereotype

The concept of midlife can vary greatly in different cultures and societies.

Cultural Variability

Midlife often brings increased attention to health and lifestyle changes.

Health Conscious

It's common for people to reassess and change their career paths during midlife.

Career Reassessment

Avoid using 'midlife' to describe young or elderly people; it's not accurate.

Potential Misuse

 we're actually working later into life, and yet we're feeling less and less relevant. Some of us feel like a carton of milk -- an old carton of milk -- with an expiration date stamped on our wrinkled foreheads. For many of us in midlife, this isn't just a feeling,

What baby boomers can...

 Forget the midlife crisis, we all face the whenever-life crisis. But here's what causes so much anxiety. We still expect our lifequakes to unfold on a predictable timetable, like birthdays that end in zero. We're all still haunted by the ghost of linearity.

The Secret to Mastering...

 that's been added to our lifespan. And yet, for the most part, our culture has not come to terms with what this means. We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the metaphor, the old metaphor. You're born, you peak at midlife

Jane Fonda: Life's third...

 through hot flashes and midlife crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day, when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore. And then they'll get stupid drunk

What you don't know...

 light comes on that comes on for most of us that are midlife crisis I'd managed to get mine quite early and it said you don't have to be old to be dead so if there's something that really grabs you something you really care about and you

Lessons Learned From...

 to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and midlife crises and a cumulative 50 pound weight gain until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace you know cuz they can't hear this snoring anymore

 The post-millennial midlife crisis isn't buying a red sports car. It's realizing you can't have that career you now want. It's realizing you can't have that child you now want, or you can't give your child a sibling.

Why 30 is not the new 20...

 and I started to feel that I could not be who I wanted to be or say what I actually thought, and humanity at this time completely identified with me. I think both of us were going through our midlife crisis,

Thoughts on humanity,...

 which is a slow and pretty much symptom-free process, of course. Women's estrogens, on the other hand, start fading in midlife, during menopause, which is anything but symptom-free.

How menopause affects...

 find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.