Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSCis a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
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Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.
The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.
It is better to hope than to mope!
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.
Life's not fair; why should I be?
Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?
When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.