“America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.”– Meryl Streep Related Quotes “My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends’ grandparents.”– Jack White “Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”– Jean-Paul Sartre “There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother’s age.”– Benjamin Spock