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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.
* She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1939.
* She has published over 60 books, including novels, poetry, short stories, essays, and children's books.
* Her work has been translated into over 40 languages and has won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize, the Governor General's Award, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.
* She is a member of the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, and the Royal Society of Literature.
* She is a professor emerita at the University of Toronto.
* She is a vocal advocate for environmental protection and women's rights.
* She is one of the most celebrated and influential writers of our time.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Margaret Atwood

A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

Margaret Atwood

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

Margaret Atwood

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Margaret Atwood

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Margaret Atwood

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

Margaret Atwood

You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

Margaret Atwood

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Margaret Atwood

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Margaret Atwood

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

Margaret Atwood

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Margaret Atwood

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

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