Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.
Margaret AtwoodLove was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
Margaret AtwoodIf the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret AtwoodThe central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.
Margaret Atwood