Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
Margaret AtwoodHow could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
Margaret AtwoodI never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.
Margaret AtwoodMy own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.
Margaret Atwood