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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 135 quotes by Margaret Atwood Website margaretatwood.ca Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001 she was... Read full biography of Margaret Atwood → 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... » Ctrl → Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no... → 0 Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. 0 Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. 0 Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you... → 0 An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. 0 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... → 0 The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. 0 Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? 0 We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. 0 You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of... → 0 Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to... → 0 A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. 0 Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... » Ctrl → Add a quote!


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