James Thurber
American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894-1961)
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author who has published a wide range of works, from novels and poetry to nonfiction and children’s books. She is best known for her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale and has won numerous prestigious awards, including two Booker Prizes. Atwood’s works explore themes such as gender, identity, religion, and the power of language.
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children’s books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General’s Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
Atwood’s works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and “power politics”. Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age.
Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.
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Margaret Atwood’s most famous work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Margaret Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General’s Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards.
According to the paragraph, the themes explored in Margaret Atwood’s works include gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and ,power politics,. Many of her poems are also inspired by myths and fairy tales.
Margaret Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is also the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.
Margaret Atwood’s works have had a significant impact, with many of her works being adapted for film and television. She is considered one of the most influential and acclaimed authors of our time.
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939.
28 Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- 1.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 2.
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 3.
Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 4.
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 5.
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 6.
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 7.
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 8.
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 9.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 10.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 11.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 12.
I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 13.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 14.
Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 15.
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 16.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 17.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 18.
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 19.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 20.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 21.
This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 22.
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 23.
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.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 24.
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 25.
Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 26.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 27.
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not ‘Am I really that oppressed?’ but ‘Am I really that boring?’
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor
- 28.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret AtwoodCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pepinieriste and inventor