Stevie Nicks Quotes

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

I'm going to have my moody times.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I have some anger issues.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

Everyone has their down days. Unfortunately, that's when I am the most prolific.

I try to focus on using my energy to change things, but there are times when I feel so bad.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

We all go through different mood changes. I'm just a person; I've got all those emotions going like everybody else, and sometimes it gets the better of you.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.

I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.