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~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« on: March 28, 2015, 01:24:09 PM »
Margaret Atwood Quotes


A Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. While she may be best known for her work as a novelist, she is also a poet, having published 15 books of poetry to date. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age. Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works.

Here are some famous quotes by Margaret Atwood.




Fear has a smell as Love does.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2015, 04:28:21 PM »
Gardening is not a rational act.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2015, 04:29:28 PM »
A word after a word after a word is power.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2015, 07:39:34 PM »
For years I wanted to be older and now I am.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2015, 07:40:03 PM »
Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2015, 07:41:19 PM »
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2015, 07:41:48 PM »
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2015, 07:42:29 PM »
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it but there's less of you.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2015, 07:42:59 PM »
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2015, 07:43:28 PM »
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2015, 07:43:59 PM »
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2015, 07:44:29 PM »
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2015, 07:44:57 PM »
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2015, 07:45:28 PM »
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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Re: ~ Margaret Atwood Quotes ~
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2015, 07:45:59 PM »
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.