But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Margaret AtwoodThe act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
Margaret AtwoodThe society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
Margaret AtwoodWriters are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.
Margaret Atwood