“I am beginning to reach the age when I say hello to the old women I meet in my neighborhood, anticipating the moment in life when I shall be one of them. When I was twenty I didn't notice them; they would be dead before my face had wrinkles.”
Quoted in But Enough About Me by Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 96
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