# Quote — Annie Ernaux, Exteriors

> 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.

- Author: [Annie Ernaux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/annie-ernaux.md)
- Book: [Exteriors](https://www.leafyquotes.com/annie-ernaux/exteriors.md)
- Page: 96
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Annie_Ernaux#Exteriors_(1993)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/annie-ernaux/exteriors/i-am-beginning