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Sarah Paulson opened up about her romantic relationship with actress Holland Taylor and how she labels her sexuality in an interview with the New York Times. 

Paulson, 41, says she enjoys being in a relationship with Taylor, 73, because being with an older woman has helped her appreciate what’s important.

“There’s a poignancy to being with someone older,” Paulson says. “I think there’s a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what’s important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something. I can’t say it any other way than there’s a poignancy to it, and a heightened sense of time and the value of time.”

Paul and Taylor were first linked together in December. Paulson has also been involved in a seven-year relationship with actress Cherry Jones and was engaged to screenwriter Tracy Letts. Due to her dating history, Paulson doesn’t want to label her sexuality but just wants to enjoy being with who she is with.

“If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that’s going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don’t want to feel that,” Paulson says. “What I can say absolutely is that I am in love, and that person happens to be Holland Taylor.”

Paulson currently stars as Marcia Clarke in the Ryan Murphy produced miniseries “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.”