I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.
Margaret LaurenceWhy doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?
Margaret LaurenceIf I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
Margaret LaurenceIt is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.
Margaret Laurence