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Daily Inspiration Quote by Donna Mills

"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever"

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There’s a quiet defiance in “I’m back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever” that feels less like a brag than a boundary being redrawn. Donna Mills isn’t offering a dramatic comeback narrative; she’s insisting on continuity. The line leans on the plainness of “everything” and “used to” to make a bigger cultural point: aging, illness, grief, career detours - whatever interruption you want to plug in - don’t get to be the whole story. The sentence is structured like a reset button, returning the speaker to an earlier baseline without apology or explanation.

The subtext is aimed at an audience trained to treat older actresses as either cautionary tales or inspirational posters. Mills sidesteps both. “Back” implies a disruption, but she refuses to linger in the disruption for public consumption. “Loving life as ever” is almost cheeky in its steadiness; it reads like a rebuke to the expectation that joy must be justified with struggle, or that resilience needs a montage.

As an actress whose career has unfolded in an industry that polices women’s visibility, the intent lands as cultural self-defense: I am not your before-and-after. It also works as a tactical PR move - not inauthentic, just disciplined. She offers a simple metric of success (doing, loving) that can’t be easily argued with, and that re-centers agency over spectacle.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Mills, Donna. (2026, January 17). I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-back-to-doing-everything-i-used-to-loving-life-52439/

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Mills, Donna. "I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-back-to-doing-everything-i-used-to-loving-life-52439/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-back-to-doing-everything-i-used-to-loving-life-52439/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Donna Mills (born December 11, 1942) is a Actress from USA.

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