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Margaret Atwood

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Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?


— Margaret Atwood


#fight-or-flight-response #beauty

Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.


— Margaret Atwood


#love

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.


— Margaret Atwood


#journalists #media #newspapers #love

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.


— Margaret Atwood


#nature

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.


— Margaret Atwood


#inspirational

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.


— Margaret Atwood


#love #pragmatic #serene #truth #beauty

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.


— Margaret Atwood


#marriage #love

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.


— Margaret Atwood


#feminism #forgiveness

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.


— Margaret Atwood


#men

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.


— Margaret Atwood


#love






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More recently Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995). Davidson.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. While Margaret Atwood is best known for her work as a novelist Margaret Atwood is also a poet having publiMargaret Atwoodd fifteen books of poetry to date.

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