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.
Margaret AtwoodBut 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 temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedges and weeds grow up, to allow the doors to rust shut, to lie on my bed in some gown-shaped garment and let my hair lengthens and spread out over the pillow and my fingernails to sprout into claws, while candle wax drips onto the carpet. But long ago I made a choice between classicism and romanticism. I prefer to be upright and containedโan urn in daylight.
Margaret Atwood