Her mother volunteered that the thing about people from another culture was that you could never tell whether they were insane or not because their ways were so different. (Margaret Atwood)

Her mother volunteered that the thing about people from another culture was that you could never tell whether they were insane or not because their ways were so different.

Margaret Atwood

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