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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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Optimism means better than reality pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
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Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
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Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
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If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
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As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.
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You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
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You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
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But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.
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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
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