Today is the 82nd birthday of Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood (1939). Her novels, like "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Cat's Eye", frequently question or criticize social institutions. "I grew up in the woods outside of any social structures apart from those of my family. So I didn't absorb social structures through my skin the way many children do. If you grow up in a small town you instinctively know who is who and what is what and whom you can safely be contemptuous of."
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TWA for Friday, November 18, 2011
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Today is the 82nd birthday of Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood (1939). Her novels, like "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Cat's Eye", frequently question or criticize social institutions. "I grew up in the woods outside of any social structures apart from those of my family. So I didn't absorb social structures through my skin the way many children do. If you grow up in a small town you instinctively know who is who and what is what and whom you can safely be contemptuous of."