leave us alone have n't you done enough damage already joanna hissed hating what the girl was what she represented hating her now that she saw her again and could remember again how much she 'd envied the girl wished she could have looked like that girl that goddess not her dowdy fifty-year-old self and that doubt that self disgust only made her angrier and then the girl said had the audacity to say get out of my way and at the end of that those five words are another two hanging there unspoken old woman get out of my way old woman like joanna was nothing meant nothing and old women are worthless look at me crone stand out of my way bow and scrape to youth .