They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
("Oryx and Crake")
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.Margaret Atwood
This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.
Margaret Atwood
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret Atwood
So much better to travel than to arrive.
Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
Margaret Atwood
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.
Margaret Atwood
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