You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
From Margaret Atwood
A word after a word after a word is power.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
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