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\u201cA divorce is like an amputation, you survive, but there’s less of you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

Surfacing<\/em> (1972) New York: Simon & Schuster, March 1973, p. 47<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf6365ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0[Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fond of him, I\u2019d rather have him around than not; thought it would be nice if he meant something more to me. The fact that he doesn\u2019t makes me sad: no one has since my husband. A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there\u2019s less of you<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d (p. 47)<\/p>\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Surfacing<\/em> (1972|1973 Simon & Schuster edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0671214500[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc65ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cAll stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel\u2026Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

The Blind Assassin<\/em> (2000) New York: Doubleday, p. 344<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e6265ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.<\/span>\u201d (p. 344)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c65ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 The Blind Assassin<\/em> (2000) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0385475721[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e65ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cE<\/strong>veryone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

Cat\u2019s Eye<\/em> (September 1988) New York: Bantam Books, 1989, p. 14<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf65ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction, character \u2018Elaine Risley\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing it, because it doesn\u2019t seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or deserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.<\/span>\u201d (p. 14)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e065ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Cat\u2019s Eye<\/em> (1988|1989 Bantam Books ed.) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0553282476[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf6365ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cH<\/strong>uman reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

The Year of the Flood<\/em> (2009) Toronto: Vintage Canada edition, 2010, p. 234<\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Fiction. From chapter titled \u201cThe Feast of Serprent Wisdom: Year Eighteen. Of the Importance of Instinctive Knowing. Spoken by Adam One.\u201d]:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Human can truly know the full mind of God. The Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us<\/span>.\u201d (p. 234)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: The Year of the Flood<\/em> is book two of Atwood’s The MaddAddam Trilogy<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf6365ae-ce1b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Year of the Flood<\/em> (2009) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978-0-307-39798-0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524334489542-cf85de74-812f”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIf the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

The Journals of Susanna Moodie<\/em> (1970) \u201cAfterward\u201d Toronto, ON: Macfarlane Walter & Ross<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524334489618-710ffc66-9d4c”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania,<\/span>\u201d Atwood concluded in 1970, \u201cthat of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia<\/span>. Mrs. Moodie is divided down the middle: she praises the Canadian landscape but accuses it of destroying her; she dislikes the people already in Canada but finds in people her only refuge from the land itself; she preaches progress and the march of civilization while brooding elegiacally upon the destruction of the wilderness.\u201d (\u201cAfterward\u201d)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1524334489706-b1263781-fec5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library – The Journals of Susanna Moodie<\/em> (1970) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) 670088769[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524334489890-e09465bc-b7de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re put on a pedestal you\u2019re supposed to behave like a pedestal type person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

\u201cMargaret Atwood: Interview\u201d (18 August 2013) Hermione Hoby, The Telegraph<\/em>, London: Telegraph Media Group; Accessed online 27 December 2017, Telegraph, www.telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524334489984-eeb29cb8-2089″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> [Interview, Atwood responding to the idea that she is a \u2018national treasure\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201dI think more terror is struck by the word \u2018icon,\u2019 she says. \u201cAll these things set a standard of behaviour that you don\u2019t necessarily wish to live up to. If you\u2019re put on a pedestal you\u2019re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1524334490082-bd79a138-7c2e”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cMargaret Atwood: Interview\u201d (18 August 2013) online via The Telegraph: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/10246937\/Margaret-Atwood-interview.html<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524334767252-767e4350-dec0″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cPotential has a shelf life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

Cat\u2019s Eye<\/em> (September 1988) New York: Doubleday, 1989, p. 279<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524334767356-611ba5a8-d178″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are silent, considering shortfalls. There\u2019s not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it\u2019s not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.<\/span>\u201d (p. 279)<\/p>\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Cat\u2019s Eye<\/em> (1988|1989 Doubleday ed.) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-385-26007-5[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524334767692-a1947cb1-ab09″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not \u2018Am I really that oppressed?\u2019 but \u2018Am I really that boring?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

\u201cDancing on the Edge of the Precipice\u201d (Fall\/Winter 1978-9) Interview with Joyce Carol Oates, Ontario Review; reprint in Margaret Atwood: Conversations<\/em>, ed. Earl G. Ingersoll, Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 1990, p. 78<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524334767808-507f6e33-9ac7″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Interview with fellow author Joyce Carol Oates. Oates & Atwood were discussing Atwood\u2019s experience as a Canadian student at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. The excerpt here is part of Atwood\u2019s response to the question \u201cWhy had you gone to Harvard in the first place?\u201d]:<\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood<\/u>: \u201cQuite a few of the well-known professors at Harvard were closet Canadians. They\u2019d learned by experience that Americans found a revelation of one\u2019s Canadian-ness, dropped, for instance, into the middle of a sherry party, about as interesting as the announcement that one had had mashed potatoes for lunch. The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not \u2018Am I really that oppressed?\u2019 but \u2018Am I really that boring?<\/span>\u201d<\/span> You see, we had never been taught much about our own history or culture \u2013 but that\u2019s another whole story.\u201d (p. 78)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1524334767952-f7e081b3-e623″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy – Margaret Atwood: Conversations<\/em> (1990) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-86538-074-0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524334965322-cd10412f-7972″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cTime is not a thing that passes\u2026it\u2019s a sea on which you float.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

The Year of the Flood (2009) <\/em>Toronto: Vintage Canada edition, 2010, p. 101<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524334965438-60594fdf-f309″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThus the time passed. Toby stopped counting it. In any case, time is not a thing that passes<\/span>, said Pilar: it\u2019s a sea on which you float.<\/span>\u201d (p. 101)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Year of the Flood<\/em> is book two of Atwood\u2019s The MaddAddam Trilogy<\/em>.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1524334965560-ecac60ff-2961″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Year of the Flood<\/em> (2009) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978-0-307-39798-0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524334965842-f6201303-c1f1″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWar is what happens when language fails.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

The Robber Bride<\/em> (1993) New York: Nan A. Talese\/Doubleday, p. 39<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524334965998-db922a10-8ad1″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe personal is not political, thinks Tony: the personal is military. War is what happens when language fails.<\/span>\u201d (p. 39)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1524334966152-77524b86-204f”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 The Robber Bride<\/em> (1993) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0385260083[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524335084846-471e37cb-97ee”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWe still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

\u201cWitches: the strong neck of a favorite ancestor\u201d (September 1980) Radcliffe Quarterly<\/em>, Vol. 66, No. 3, p. 5; online via Radcliffe College Archives Digital Collections, \u201cAnnual Reports & College and Alumnae Publications,\u201d Harvard University Library, guides.library.harvard.edu<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524335085010-fdea9962-3488″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Essay. Italics original to cited text.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 10 years of the Women\u2019s Movement we like to think that some of the old stereotypes are fading, but 10 years is not a very long time in the history of the world, and I can tell you from experience that the old familiar images, the old icons, have merely gone underground, and not far at that. We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly<\/span>, a potentially dangerous anomaly; there is something subversive about such women, even when they take care to be good role models. They cannot have come by their power naturally, it is felt. They must have got it from somewhere<\/em>.\u201d (p. 5, column 2)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1524335085198-411cd4c1-8887″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cWitches: the strong neck of a favorite ancestor\u201d (September 1980) Radcliffe Quarterly<\/em>; via Harvard University Library: https:\/\/iiif.lib.harvard.edu\/manifests\/view\/drs:427992484$1i<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1524335084234-eb87f238-9ea3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhat is needed for really good tyranny is an unquestionable idea or authority. Political disagreement is political disagreement. But political disagreement with a theocracy is heresy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Margaret Atwood<\/strong>, Canadian author<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWriting Utopia\u201d (c. 1983-1989) Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004<\/em>, Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press, 2005 edition, Part I, p. 108<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1524335084370-5bb0af87-fc8f”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Atwood on the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and her book The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, the most potent forms of dictatorship have always been those that have imposed tyranny in the name of religion; and even folk such as the French Revolutionaries and Hitler have striven to give a religious force and sanction to their ideas. What is needed for really good tyranny is an unquestionable idea or authority. Political disagreement is political disagreement. But political disagreement with a theocracy <\/em>is heresy<\/span>, and a good deal of gloating self-righteousness can be brought to bear on the extermination of heretics, as history has demonstrated, through the Crusades, the forcible conversions to Islam, the Spanish Inquisition, the burnings at the stake under the English queen Bloody Mary, and so on through the years.\u201d (p. 97)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: You can view a video of Atwood talking about her book Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose<\/em> (the 2005 American version of Moving Targets<\/em>) via C-SPAN: \u201cWriting with Intent\u201d (21 April 2005) Video \u2013 40:11: https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?186435-1\/writing-intent<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library – Moving Targets: Writing with Intent<\/em> (2004|2005 Anansi Press) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-88784-735-8[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Margaret Atwood<\/strong><\/span> | Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n