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Speech Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
- I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a…
- Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
- The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
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