Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.

Through the archive: ‘People think i am frightening, nonetheless they’re effortlessly frightened’ – Margaret Atwood

Joint-Booker Prize champion Margaret Atwood addresses misconceptions about by herself and covers growing up in rural Canada within the 1950s, in this meeting with Barry Egan, initially published in 2006 june

Have you got dependants? Margaret Atwood employs her trenchant gaze on me personally as she provides the concern considerable thought. She has a deep breathing before triggering on an answer that may endure five full minutes and which just she might have built.

“through the years, i have had the immediate following: three kids – of who two are stepchildren plus one is biological; We have two grandchildren by one of many stepchildren; in addition we have actually had nine kitties, two dogs, two horses, cows, sheep, peacocks, a turtle, geese, ducks, chickens… am we anything that is missing? “

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February 8, 2020