I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in … - Margaret Atwood
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I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them.
She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.
More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself — herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
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