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Why do men feel threatened by women?
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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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
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Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.
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I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.
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The responsible treatment of this particular Ring of Power is not necessarily to toss it into the Cracks of Doom. But we have to come up with something rather quickly, or what we'll get is the Land of Mordor.
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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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Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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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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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
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Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
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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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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering unlike love.
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Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.” “Them?” “Nature and God.” “I thought you didn’t believe in God,” said Jimmy. “I don’t believe in Nature either,” said Crake. “Or not with a capital N.
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You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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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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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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