Margaret Atwood
Quotations
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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.” -Margaret Atwood
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“War is what happens when language fails.” -Margaret Atwood
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“Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.” -Margaret Atwood
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“Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.” -Margaret Atwood
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“If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough…
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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
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“I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.” -Margaret Atwood
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“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.” -Margaret Atwood
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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.” -Margaret Atwood
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“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
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“Gardening is not a rational act.” -Margaret Atwood
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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.” -Margaret Atwood
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Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood
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