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As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

Halle Berry

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Halle Berry
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 14
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I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.
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After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.
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This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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