Margaret Atwood

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

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

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"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together."

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"For years I wanted to be older and now I am."

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"The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose."

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"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."

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"Sons branch out but one woman leads to another."

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

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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."

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"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love."

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"Fear has a smell as Love does."

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"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. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment."

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"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."

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"The truly fearless think of themselves as normal."

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"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up"

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"Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."

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"Pearls are congealed oyster spit."

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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."

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

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"A word after a word after a word is power."