I was the youngest and weepiest of the family, frequently sent for naps due to fatigue, and thought to be sensitive, even a but sickly; perhaps this was because I showed undue interest in sissy stuff like knitting and dresses and stuffed bunnies. My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshamallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.

Margaret Atwood [Negotiating with the Dead, 2002]

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