“War is what happens when language fails.”
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Author detail
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she has received national and international recognition for her writing. ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over forty countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now a successful MGM-Hulu television series currently preparing its fourth season, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; The Penelopiad; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-seed; and The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, published in September, 2019. She lives in Toronto some of the time.
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“War is what happens when language fails.”
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“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
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“A word after a word after a word is power.”
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“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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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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“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 asto...”
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“Fear has a smell, as Love does.”
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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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“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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“A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.”
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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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“The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.”
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“For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.”
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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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“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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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. G...”
“How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”
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“Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.”
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“A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?”
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