Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.
Margaret AtwoodYou can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ยญromantic relationship, unless you want to break up.
Margaret AtwoodNothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
Margaret AtwoodOppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
Margaret Atwood