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Our Own Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
- What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
- At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
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