When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see. β¨ Attitude. Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.
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- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done. β¨ Margaret Atwood (2011) β¦ βΆ
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- Ignoring isnβt the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. β¨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid's Tale, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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