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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist. She has published seventeen books of poetry, sixteen novels, ten books of non-fiction, eight collections of short fiction, eight children’s books, and one graphic novel, as well as a number of small press editions in poetry and fiction. Atwood has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize five times, winning in 2000 for The Blind Assassin. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award 10 times, winning in 1966 for The Circle Game and 1985 for The Handmaid's Tale. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Atwood is the 2016 recipient of The National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2017 recipient of the PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, Atwood was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize, as well as a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.

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What you get is no longer what you see.

Longer, See

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Future, Handmaids, Handmaids Tale, Insatiability, Talent, Yearned

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings. . . but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.

Arms, Blamed, Body, Real, Wanting

If I waited for perfection. . . I would never write a word.

Perfect, Waited, Word, Write, Writers Block, Writing

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Focus, What If, Doe, Life, Science, Earth

Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

Giants, Involved, Scandal, Sex, Squid, Squids

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

Gardening, Hands, Kissingthe, Pallid, Remnant, What Matters

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Everyone, Takes, Thinking, Trying, Write, Writing

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

Animal, Flying, Forever, Joy, Quite

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. . . . Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Fear, Pain, Coffee, Freezing, Fearless, Gangrene

The Human moral keyboard is limited. . . there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

Sorry, Play, Keyboards, Limited, Nothing, Moral

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Cave, Caves, Dismal, Laugh, Laughing, Things

Better never means better for everyone. . . It always means worse, for some.

Change, Everyone, Handmaids Tale, Mean, Worse

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

Cause, Causes, Harm, People, Things

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

Absence, Atheism, God, Presence, Reverse, Same

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.

Pay, Pays, Tune, Tunes, Undertaker

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

Dies, Ending, John, Mary, Thy

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Anarchy, Aunt, Freedom, Kind, Lydia

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

Cusp, Letting Go, Past, Solstice, Sun, Years

Love's never a fair trade.

Fair, Fair Trade, Love, Trade

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