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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.

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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Tags: Else, Another, Everyone
Margaret Atwood

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Tags: Time, Why, Joy
Margaret Atwood

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Tags: Human, Come, Realize
Margaret Atwood

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Tags: Home, Trust, Yourself
Margaret Atwood

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

Tags: Beautiful, Mother, Wife
Margaret Atwood

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

Tags: Book, Need, Find
Margaret Atwood

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Tags: Choose, Female, Saints
Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.

Tags: Nature, Human, Over
Margaret Atwood

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Tags: Without, Become, Energy
Margaret Atwood

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Tags: Happen, Fiction, Planets
Margaret Atwood

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