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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Margaret Atwood

Thought

Now

Running

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

War

Language

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Margaret Atwood

Water

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

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Margaret Atwood

Beginning

Nationalism

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Atwood

Justice

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.