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I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

Margaret Atwood
Self, Waiting, Speech
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.