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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
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Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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