Emily

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.”
― Margaret Atwood

“But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life