Margaret Atwood Quotes and Sayings
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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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“Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.”
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“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.”
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“Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.”
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“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
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“We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.”
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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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“I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.”
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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.”
-- Margaret Atwood