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All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

~Margaret Atwood

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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

~Margaret Atwood

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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

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I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

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I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

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I'm bad at picking heroes.

~Margaret Atwood

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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 18th, 1939

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