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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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Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
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I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
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Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.
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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
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Why do men feel threatened by women?
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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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The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.
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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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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.
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There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
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