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There's No Such Thing As Turning Back The Hands Of Time, And It Makes Me Crazy That We Live In A Society Where That's Sold To Women—that We're Supposed To Believe That If We're Getting Older, We've Failed Somehow, That We Have Failed By Not Staying Young. I Wish That Women Would Let Other Women Age Gracefully And Allow Them To Get Older And Know That As We Get Older, We Become Wiser.

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There's No Such Thing

Cameron Diaz

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There's No Such Thing As Turning Back The Hands Of Time, And It Makes Me Crazy That We Live In A Society Where That's Sold To Women—that We're Supposed To Believe That If We're Getting Older, We've Failed Somehow, That We Have Failed By Not Staying Young. I Wish That Women Would Let Other Women Age Gracefully And Allow Them To Get Older And Know That As We Get Older, We Become Wiser.

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