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What you get is no longer what you see.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
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If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.
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Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
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The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
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If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.
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You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
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Why do men feel threatened by women?
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If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
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It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers take me to your deaths. These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
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