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The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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