Margaret Atwood
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"Margaret Eleanor Atwood", is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Awards/Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc. (formerly Unotchit Inc.), a company that she started in 2004 to develop, produce and distribute the LongPen technology. She holds various patents related to the LongPen technologies.

While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry.

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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Being kind to your dog doesn't make you a better artist.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.

War is what happens when language fails.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard, though silently.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.