Margaret Atwood

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate November 18, 1939

Zodiac Scorpio

Location Ottawa, Canada

Country Canada

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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there`s less of you

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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

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Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

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Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

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Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

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Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.

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A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

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His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

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