Margaret Atwood

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#refuse #victim

A word after a word after a word is power. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#power #word

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

— Margaret Atwood

#less #like #survive #you

Writing poetry is a state of free float ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#inspirational #literature #poetry #writing #inspirational

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— 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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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. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#been #caught #consequences #done #even

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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