At night, Toby breathed herself in. Her new self. Her skin smelled like honey and salt. And earth
Margaret AtwoodHis view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
Margaret AtwoodScience fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Margaret AtwoodTag: sci-fi
Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.
Margaret AtwoodTag: life perspective
Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
Margaret AtwoodTag: friendship secrets importance
I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.
Margaret AtwoodTag: knowledge empathy parents father
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
Margaret AtwoodTag: gender men women alcohol double-standards
My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I’m older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.
Margaret AtwoodTag: age parents embarrassment
This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.
Margaret AtwoodTag: girls women murder shame blame
They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.
Margaret AtwoodTag: passion women feminism fervor
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