Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too work… - Margaret Atwood

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Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We're no more real than money.

Margaret Atwood

The Penelopiad · October 5, 2005 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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

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