"Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thi..."
- Margaret Chittenden
"It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
"I have so much hate that it has turned into love."
- Margaret Cho
"The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!"
- Sarah Waters
"Girl Without HandsWalking through the ruinson your way to workthat do not look like ruinswith the sunlight pouring overthe seen worldlike hail or meltedsilver, that brightand magnificent, each leafand..."
- Margaret Atwood
"I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there."
- Elizabeth Gaskell