"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time"
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A wry confession from a woman who lived under a magnifying glass, "I think I'm finally growing up - and about time" blends self-mockery with resolve. The line lands with the authority of someone who has cycled through adoration, scandal, illness, and reinvention and refuses to pretend that age or celebrity automatically confer wisdom. Growing up here is not a milestone reached at 18 or 30, but an accumulation of hard lessons, a decision to act differently after years of repetition.
Elizabeth Taylor began as a child star, became a global symbol of beauty and appetite, and weathered more headlines than most nations. The phrase "about time" punctures that aura, acknowledging delay without self-pity. It carries the humor of a survivor who can now name her patterns: the impulsive romances, the dramas that gripped the tabloids, the pains that followed. There is humility in the timing; she is not claiming sainthood, only a shift in orientation from reaction to reflection.
The line also pushes against the culture that kept her eternally youthful in the public imagination. Hollywood immortalizes faces and freezes narratives; admitting growth is a refusal to be embalmed by image. As Taylor moved into advocacy, especially around HIV/AIDS when few dared, she rechanneled fame into service. That pivot reads as part of the maturation she invokes: a widening of concern, a steadier sense of responsibility, and a use of voice grounded in empathy rather than self-display.
Yet the sentence keeps her sparkle. It is resigned and mischievous at once, suggesting that maturity need not cancel personality. The appeal endures because it names a late-arriving truth many recognize: real adulthood is less a birthday than a reckoning. When it finally arrives, you greet it with a rueful smile and the resolve to make the remaining years count.
Elizabeth Taylor began as a child star, became a global symbol of beauty and appetite, and weathered more headlines than most nations. The phrase "about time" punctures that aura, acknowledging delay without self-pity. It carries the humor of a survivor who can now name her patterns: the impulsive romances, the dramas that gripped the tabloids, the pains that followed. There is humility in the timing; she is not claiming sainthood, only a shift in orientation from reaction to reflection.
The line also pushes against the culture that kept her eternally youthful in the public imagination. Hollywood immortalizes faces and freezes narratives; admitting growth is a refusal to be embalmed by image. As Taylor moved into advocacy, especially around HIV/AIDS when few dared, she rechanneled fame into service. That pivot reads as part of the maturation she invokes: a widening of concern, a steadier sense of responsibility, and a use of voice grounded in empathy rather than self-display.
Yet the sentence keeps her sparkle. It is resigned and mischievous at once, suggesting that maturity need not cancel personality. The appeal endures because it names a late-arriving truth many recognize: real adulthood is less a birthday than a reckoning. When it finally arrives, you greet it with a rueful smile and the resolve to make the remaining years count.
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