Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

Cherie Blair

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I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

Being a straight white guy in his, like, early twenties - there's some sort of thing about it. A sort of privilege, a sort of anger or something. You just say some really stupid things.

Ad-Rock

Anger You White

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

Adam Lambert

Wit Ways Way

When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.

Alex Scott

You Which Up

When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

Alex Zanardi

Your You Very

I was so boisterous in high-school, I don't think a lot of boys liked me that much 'cause they were like, 'Oh, she's so loud and so crazy.' But then this thing happens in your late twenties, and guys begin to take note of women's personalities more or something.

Ali Wong

Women Men Your

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as 'the little wife.' You don't know what it was like then! I'd never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Alice Munro

Money Young You

I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.

Alice Ripley

Way Twenties Till

For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier.

Allan Gurganus

Car You Twenties

When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.

Amanda Foreman

Good Wit Us

I hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

Amber Rudd

Politics Car Twenties

Everybody's constantly growing. In your twenties, you can learn a lot, and you can be very smart and clever and savvy. Especially these kids today. They seem like they have it all together. But let's talk to them again when they're 40 years old and see really who they are. Is it who they thought they were at 25?

Amber Valletta

Art Your You

When you're in your twenties, you're made of expectations, and when they're shattered, you don't know how to behave. The fact is if you react really outraged, you fear that you'll get dropped and feel even more terrible. But there's only a certain amount you can put up with before you become obnoxious in your own eyes, right?

Anjelica Huston

Fear Age Your

When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.

Anne Hathaway

Work Time Men

When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them. And now I'm in my early thirties, and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it; it's the way things are.

Anne Hathaway

Women Men Art

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

Anthony Browne

Age Until Unlikely

I've always considered myself a little more fluid along the spectrum. So even being called bisexual... I remember, in my early twenties, I was like, 'But bisexual means I can only like girls and guys. What if I like something else?'

Antoni Porowski

What If Ways Way

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

Antonio Banderas

Women Men Anger

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Your You Who

I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

Ashley Jensen

Car Yourself Yours

In your twenties, you're trying to figure out who you are: making mistakes, wanting to be sexy, growing up as a woman.

Ashley Roberts

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Barry Diller

The events of my twenties felt historic, but the people involved did not. I wanted a hero - someone who could make sense of what was happening around me and in some way redeem it.

Ben Rhodes

In my twenties, I floated around for years, doing the odd theatre job but mainly leading a hedonistic lifestyle, getting intoxicated in plenty of different ways in plenty of different places.

Bill Bailey

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Bill Gates

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Bill Gates

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Bill Hader

Until your mid-twenties, you're still growing up mentally. It's fair to say there's a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.

Bill Skarsgard

Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.

Billy Howle

Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I had spent about a year in Michigan studying the history of art.

Bobby Kotick

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Brendan Coyle

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

At around 20 years old, I started to educate myself on nutrition. I'm so grateful that I taught myself the importance of health and fitness in my early twenties. I created a lifestyle that I love, and because of that, I've never had to diet.

Brie Bella

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Buzz Aldrin

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

Cameron Britton

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Candace Bushnell

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

Candace Bushnell

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Caroline B. Cooney

There's this pressure to perform in your twenties - I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.

Caroline Ghosn

I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.

Carrie Brownstein

I might have had too many friends in my twenties.

Chadwick Boseman

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

Chaka Khan

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Charles Frazier

I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.

Charlie Trotter

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

Cherie Blair

When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.

Chris Pavone

My weight fluctuates, and I haven't always been skinny. I became curvier in my twenties, but I never felt self-conscious about it; going through different periods is all part of being a woman.

Christy Turlington

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

Chuka Umunna

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

Claire Danes