"What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies."

Motherhood Projection Archetype Childhood

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About Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic known for literary fiction and speculative works. Her books include The Handmaids Tale and Alias Grace.

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