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White: I would not have married my first or second husbands. I married my first because we wanted to sleep together. It lasted six months, and we were in bed for six months. The second time I was deeply in love, but he wanted me to get out of show business — a deal breaker. Both marriages helped me to appreciate the real thing when it came along.

Curtis: Would I do a few things over as a mother? Sure. Would I do a lot the same? Sure. I'm not a big regretter — maybe a couple of hairdos in the '70s.

Bell: Every experience has made me who I am, but if I had to choose, I guess I would have raised my glove and caught the softball that sent me to homecoming with two black eyes.

Sex Gets (blank) With Age

Curtis: Deeper over time.

White: I don't have a fella, but if Allen — or Robert Redford — were around, we'd have a very active sex life. Does desire melt away with age? I'm waiting for that day to come. Sexual desire is like aging — a lot of it is up here [points to her head].

Bell: It gets sweeter — and more fun. But whether you have an enormous libido — like my friend Betty — or none at all, there's no norm. There are different bodies, books, people.

Curtis: That's the greatest advice in this article, out of the mouth of the babe.