Margaret Atwood Quotes: I want to be held and told my…

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something

("The Handmaid's Tale")

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I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.
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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
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