We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret AtwoodI feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and Iād turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.
Margaret AtwoodI would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
Margaret AtwoodI'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
Margaret AtwoodFor the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
Margaret AtwoodHe has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.
Margaret Atwood