My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
Margaret AtwoodI have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.
Margaret AtwoodAs soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Margaret AtwoodYou're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood