Quote #60

A word after a word after a word is power (from 'Spelling').

More from Margaret Atwood

  1. A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
  2. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
  3. A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
  4. Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.
  5. A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.
  6. Canada was built on dead beavers.
  7. . . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do …
  8. For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

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