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  • A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

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    "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

  • I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.

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    Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

  • Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Margaret Atwood

  • Born: November 18, 1939
  • Occupation: Poet
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