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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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All fat women look the same they all look 42.
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.
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It's in Macbeth: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon. I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!
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My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
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Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
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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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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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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
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I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
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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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Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.
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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
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