Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. - Margaret Atwood

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Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

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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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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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He doesn’t understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you’ve done, but from the things that others have done to you.

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