I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
Margaret AtwoodAnd consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
Margaret AtwoodHe's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
Margaret AtwoodMy brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
Margaret Atwood