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The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
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If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?
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Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.
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Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
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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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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.
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Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.
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It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.
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Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
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I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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