Creative Quotations from . . .
Margaret Atwood
(1939-____) born on Nov 18
Canadian "novelist, poet". "She wrote best-selling novel "The Handmaid's Tale," 1986; also wrote "Cat's Eye," 1990."
 
   
F
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

R
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
A
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
N
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
K
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not "Am I really that oppressed?" but "Am I really that boring?""


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Hair Jewelry," in Ms., 1976."
R: ""The Journals of Susanna Moodie," Oxford 70, quoted in John Robert Colombo ed "Colombo's Canadian Quotations," Hurtig 74"
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
K: ""Dancing On the Edge Of the Precipice," interview with Joyce Carol Oates published in Ontario Review (fall-winter 1978; repr. in Conversations, ed. by Earl G. Ingersoll, 1990)."



copyright 1996-2007 by Baertracks at bemorecreative.com