<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389990" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wrinkles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Naomi Lazard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I can't wait until I look like Nadezhda Mandelstam.<br>-- Naomi Lazard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friends are tired.<br>The ones who are married are tired<br>of being married.<br>The ones who are single are tired<br>of being single.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They look at their wrinkles.<br>The ones who are single attribute their wrinkles<br>to being single.<br>The ones who are married attribute their wrinkles<br>to being married.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have very few wrinkles.<br>Even taken together,<br>they have very few wrinkles.<br>But I cannot persuade them<br>to look at their wrinkles<br>collectively.<br>& I cannot persuade them that being married<br>or being single<br>has nothing to do with wrinkles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each one sees a deep & bitter groove,<br>a San Andreas fault across her forehead.<br>&quot;It is only a matter of time<br>before the earthquake.&quot;<br>They trade the names of plastic surgeons<br>like recipes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friends are tired.<br>The ones who have children are tired<br>of having children.<br>The ones who are childless are tired<br>of being childless.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They love their wrinkles.<br>If only their were deeper<br>they could hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I think<br>(but do not dare to tell them)<br>that when the face is left alone to dig its grave,<br>the soul is grateful<br>& rolls in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389990" data-title="Wrinkles de Erica Jong" data-description="For Naomi Lazard Sometimes I can't wait until I look like Nadezhda Mandelstam. -- Naomi Lazard My friends are tired. The ones who are married are tired of being married. The ones who are single are tired of being single. They look at their wrin..."></div> </div> </div>

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