They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. - Margaret Atwood

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They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

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About Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 18 November 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Alternative Names: Margaret Eleanor Atwood Marqaret Etvud

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Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being.

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