Quote #68
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 being friendly.
More from Margaret Atwood
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
- 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.
- 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.
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
- Gardening is not a rational act.
- In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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