I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

The Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture series organized by the Writers' Trust of Canada. Awards and recognition
Laurence won two Governor General's Awards for her novels A Jest of God (1966) and The Diviners (1974).

She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.