You Fit Into Me

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

poem by Margaret Atwood
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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Every catastrophe is merely a problem looking for a brilliant solution.

Margaret Atwood in Life Before Man (1979)
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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