9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for November 17, 2003
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"It is held as culturally axiomatic for a woman to provoke speculation on her age by obliquely lying about it." "That allows everyone within earchot the gratification of adding six years to her answer." "So when it comes up in conversation, I always say I'm in my late thirties." "But then everyone will think you're 45." "I'm 47."