Quotes from Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

The past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as décor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.