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I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, "What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?", and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, "Is there hope?"

— Margaret Atwood

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Source: Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (September 13, 2007) Official television documentary credited on margaretatwood.ca
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