I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodThe story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodIn Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' before you do it, but in my case it was a gun."
Margaret Atwood