Facts about Margaret Atwood

Occup.	Novelist
From	Canada
Born	November 18, 1939
Age	85 years

Summary

Margaret Atwood is a famous Novelist from Canada, he/she is 85 years old and still alive, born November 18, 1939.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding. Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Margaret, under the main topic Gardening.

Related authors: Gay Talese (Journalist)

28 Famous quotes by Margaret Atwood

"A word after a word after a word is power"

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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt"

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise"

Margaret Atwood

"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you"

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"This above all, to refuse to be a victim"

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"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done"

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"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies"

Margaret Atwood

"Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time"

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"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer"

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"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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"Canada was built on dead beavers"

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"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason"

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"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose"

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"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly"

Margaret Atwood

"For years I wanted to be older, and now I am"

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"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups"

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"War is what happens when language fails"

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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

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"Gardening is not a rational act"

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"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia"

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"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary"

Margaret Atwood

"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness"

Margaret Atwood

"Never pray for justice, because you might get some"

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"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together"

Margaret Atwood

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own"

Margaret Atwood

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it"

Margaret Atwood

"Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one"

Margaret Atwood