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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Margaret Atwood

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Atwood

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

Gardening is not a rational act.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Margaret Atwood

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Margaret Atwood