Quotes From "The Edible Woman" By Margaret Atwood

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd...
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I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me. Margaret Atwood
Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship...
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Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. Margaret Atwood
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What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits.. No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time. . Margaret Atwood
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That’s what you get for being food. Margaret Atwood
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What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Margaret Atwood
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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time! Margaret Atwood