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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
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Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.
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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.
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I feel like the word shatter.
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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.
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While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
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In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught creative writing. We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.
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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
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Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
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You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet' we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.
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When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.
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