After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.


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In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER
Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER
Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
MARGARET MEAD
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER
If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar...
MARGARET STOHL
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD
Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER
Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
MARGARET BROWNLEY