“Get Out Of Your Own Way”: 10 Famous Women On Finding Love (And A Husband) After 40
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Jill Scott
In an interview with the Tampa Bay Times last August, two months after marrying boyfriend Mike Dobson at 44, Scott compared her journey to tying the knot for a second time to animals.
“In the animal kingdom, the lioness does the hunting,” she said. “But the king, it’s up to him to earn her.”
“I went on safari, and I watched this male lion chase a lioness for two hours,” she continued. “He got close to her; she slapped the fool out of him. Made him bleed. Then she ran. And he ran. And she ran. And he ran. For hours. And then finally, she decided, ‘Okay, you’re the one.’ He earned it. And it was like a light switch: Ohhhhh … I think I had been doing the same thing.”
So what did Scott do? “I gave it to the creator,” she said. “I made room in my life for someone great.”
