Little Latte

margaret atwood / louise glück

Margaret Atwood, from ‘Crickets’, The Door (2007)

Margaret Atwood sat down to write Alias Grace and she said imagine the personification of 19th century ideas about white femininity (madonna whore complex embodied in a celebrated murderess and lunatic who may also be a virginal brutalised victim and is certainly a menial domestic servant skilled in textile crafts with a submissive yet composed demeanour) and white masculinity (a spoiled upper class manbaby who immediately judges every woman he interacts with on how attractive he finds them and has nonstop violent sexual fantasies while thinking himself the pinnacle of civilisation and chivalry and rational scientific endeavour) and then showed the man fucking falling to pieces while the woman is like. you good bro

— February by Margaret Atwood

is / not, margaret atwood

― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy

Margaret Atwood, from The Circle Game

Margaret Atwood, from ‘The Last Rational Man’, The Door (2007)

Margaret Atwood, from ‘The Last Rational Man’, The Door (2007)

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg; from 'Bluebeard's Egg'

— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986  (via violentwavesofemotion)

Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Eurydice’

Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems : 1965-1975