More from Margaret Atwood

  1. For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
  2. I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
  3. Canada was built on dead beavers.
  4. I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
  5. Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.
  6. If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, 'How's the little lady today!' you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only bei…
  7. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
  8. If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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