We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
Margaret AtwoodDon't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
Margaret AtwoodThere are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
Margaret AtwoodThe male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogsโit's been documentedโdiscover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
Margaret Atwood