Quote #70

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

More from Margaret Atwood

  1. 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.
  2. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
  3. 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…
  4. Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm o…
  5. I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
  6. Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
  7. 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.
  8. No one knows what causes an outer landscape to become an inner one.

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