it's all downhill
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"You get a lot of people that like to write you off as soon as you reach 40, it's all downhill from there, is what you hear," she said.
From BBC
“You get a lot of people that like to write you off as soon as you reach 40, it’s all downhill from there,” said her 40-year-old U.S. teammate, Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, who took bronze.
Melissa Melby, a professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware, agrees that in the West, "there is this perception that menopause is going to be horrendous, it's going to be hard to navigate, and it's all downhill from there,".
From BBC
Once Zola lets the “sis” business slide, it’s all downhill.
From Salon
“It’s all downhill after you’ve done the WHCD. I mean, is there anything better than making the president of the United States laugh for fifteen minutes? I feel like I helped avert wars.”
From Salon
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