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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.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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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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We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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