Who is Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. 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 ...
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Margaret Atwood Poems

• A Sad Child
  You're sad because you're sad.
  It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
  Go see a shrink or take a pill,
  or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll...
• The Moment
  The moment when, after many years
  of hard work and a long voyage
  you stand in the centre of your room,
  house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,...
• You Fit Into Me
  You fit into me
  like a hook into an eye
  
  a fish hook...
• Helen Of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
  The world is full of women
  who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself
  if they had the chance. Quit dancing.
  Get some self-respect...
• Bored
  All those times I was bored
  out of my mind. Holding the log
  while he sawed it. Holding
  the string while he measured, boards,...

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Margaret Atwood Quotes

• We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
• Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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