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Quotes from Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award — Madeleine L'Engle

1918–2007 United States

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Most of the time nowadays we human beings are referred to as consumers.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

I've always believed that there is no subject that is taboo for the writer.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

Often the only way to look clearly at this extraordinary universe is through fantasy, fairy tale, myth.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

Certainly that mild quip of the elderly man wouldn't shock anybody today. We might laugh appreciatively at his wit, but that would be the extent of our reaction.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

The changes are not going to stop. They are going to continue and accelerate. Like it or not.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

I'm a female. Why would I give all the best ideas to a male?

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

I think that this scene is upsetting because it calls us beyond fact into the vast world of imagination, and imagination is a word of many dimensions.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

Language is often changed by writers.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

"God go before us," or "God lead us."

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it.

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Madeleine L'Engle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.