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Margaret E Atwood

@MargaretAtwood

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author of much, including a S*bstack. . I have just started a Blue*ky account. I’m not sure whether anyone sees my X posts.

Toronto
Joined July 2009
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@MargaretAtwood
Margaret E Atwood
1 year
Finished copies of #OldBabes have landed! Stories featuring Nell & Tig, George Orwell, beloved cats, a confused snail, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales. Find out more: @ChattoBooks @PenguinRandomUK
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2 years
Live from #toronto #ukraine rally
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
I on the other hand am a cat. I just can’t get this human filter off.
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@MargaretAtwood
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2 years
In Nova Scotia with appropriately sloganed coffee mug...
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@MargaretAtwood
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2 years
My goodness, some of you are good at misreading! To be clear: when HandmaidsTale came out in 85, there was disbelief. I thought a religious-right takeover was possible in the US, and was Crazy Margaret. Premature, but unfortunately too close. That doesn’t make me happy.
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Sorry about that...
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Here’s one of my birthday gifts (from baby sister).
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
This...
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@MargaretAtwood
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1 year
@chelseabwrites Join the club. I did a signing to which Nobody came, except a guy who wanted to buy some Scotch tape and thought I was the help. :)
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
Yes indeed to those who asked: I’m writing a sequel to The #HandmaidsTale . #TheTestaments is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene and is narrated by three female characters. It will be published in Sept 2019. More details:
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2 years
Working on it...
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2 years
Someone please ask @MargaretAtwood what happens to us next.
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Some science here: "When Sex and Gender Collide." #TransGenderWomen Biology doesn't deal in sealed Either/Or compartments. We're all part of a flowing Bell curve. Respect that! Rejoice in Nature's infinite variety!
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6 years
That is why I did not put anything into #TheHandmaidsTale that had not happened somewhere... including the snatching of children from their parents. Believable? Alas yes.
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6 years
Not even @MargaretAtwood could write the crap that's happening right now and have it sound believable.
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@MargaretAtwood
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6 years
Vicepresident of Argentina @gabimichetti : don't look away from the thousands of deaths every year from ilegal abortions. Give argentinian women the right to choose! #AbortoLegalYa #QueElAbortoSeaLey #NiUnaMenos #AbortoEnSenadoYa @cdnwomenfdn @equalitynow
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@MargaretAtwood
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2 years
To be also clear, there are no overtly #LBGTQ + people in Gilead society in The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) because the regime has killed and suppressed them. As has happened and is happening in many times & places.
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It’s an old playbook. Create chaos, remove validity from gov’t, create a demand for #authoritarian order, step in; OR force gov’t itself to use muscle, then yell Tyrant. Bingo, democracy doesn’t work! Enemies of it win. #blockades
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
I shouldn’t have, but I did. That’s Alex @FaneProductions killing himself laughing. I didn’t run over anyone (this time). #wellington N Z: filled with temptations!
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Ahem I got #vaccinated . (Old, you know.) Thank you front liners at St. Mike’s in #toronto . You were all great!
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@MargaretAtwood
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1 year
#Banned in Russia! I dunno, was it the Cat Hat? ⁦ @bayraktar_1love ⁩ ⁦ @JimCarrey
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@MargaretAtwood
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1 year
Happy times, fingers crossed, better 2023, let's hope!
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@MargaretAtwood
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7 years
At the Emmys...
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Thank you all for Birthday wishes! Opening present in the great Canadian freezing socially distanced outdoors.. :D
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
With Bernadine Evaristo ⁦ @TheBookerPrizes ⁩ ., happy co-winners!
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@MargaretAtwood
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1 year
Astonishing!
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1 year
"Handmaids Tale" protesters marching in formation down Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street this afternoon, looking exactly like they do in the miniseries. Chilling.
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
After a hard day’s #gardening or indeed #writing , a little splash does no harm.. #ireland No falling into the wheelbarrow however.
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@MargaretAtwood
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7 years
Yeah I know, it's a kinda silly hat but it's pink eh? #WomensMarch #Toronto
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Congratulations, American friends! I had the teapot ready for you, but I guess you won’t be fleeing now! Here’s to transparency and Truth.
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@MargaretAtwood
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1 month
Congratulations to @StephenKing on the 50th anniversary publication of Carrie, his breakthrough novel. Moi has an Introduction in it -- longer than the one in the NY Times.... (It's got Jungian analysis, tho not by me, just sayin' ....)
@StephenKing That the authors you love loving the authors you love = Blessing
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
OK Twitterpals, as I crouch in my burrow, what would you like the most? a) comforting book reccos b) plague book reccos c) poetry book reccos d) stupid/weird/mundane things I have done to pass the time, which would have passed anyway...
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Too close.
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4 years
@MargaretAtwood is this how the prequel to A Handmaid’s Tale starts?
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
Because it's in the world. (It's not just women who are controlled in the book.. it's everyone except those at the top. Gilead is a theocratic totalitariansim, not simply a Men-have-power Women-do-not world. Lower status men are told when and who marry, eg.)
@GavrilovMomchil
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5 years
My crazy English teacher is making us write essays on #TheHandmaidsTale tale where we are supposed to answer why @MargaretAtwood put the theme of power and control in the book. We do not have telepathy with @MargaretAtwood so I guess twitter is a close second... Helpppp!!!🥴
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
Thanks to all for birthday wishes! I am now officially “spry.” Sharing cake (provided by my little sister).
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@MargaretAtwood
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2 years
@EarlGreyTea_pls @mrsmaris Glad some are realizing it could happen to them and maybe they should work to try to keep it from happening to anybody.
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@MargaretAtwood
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6 years
Thank you. A division between women's rights and human rights is a false dichotomy. One of my sources for #TheHandmaidsTale was Argentina under the Generals. So many women were killed and their babies stolen.
@mmisery
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@MargaretAtwood @elpais_cultura This a good article, Margaret. I hope you know that many of us don’t consider you a bad feminist or a traitor.
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@MargaretAtwood
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1 year
Prohibited from entering #Russia , books banned in #USA … gee, this 83 year old granny (me)must be some threat! >:>{ Will it be the #polonium tea or what?
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
The life of glamour. Banished to a bench in the dungeons at ⁦ @TheBookerPrizes ⁩ in advance of guest arrivals. :(
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
June is on fire.. ⁦ @CraVeTv6 ⁩ ⁦ @hulu ⁩ ⁦ @mgmstudios #handmaidsonhulu Just don’t annoy her! (Any more.)
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Here comes @HandmaidsOnHulu #handmaidstale Season 4: April 28! No I haven't seen it yet! I too will be surprised! (Where can I get one of these botanical specimens?)
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Authoritarians are fond of using any kind of social unrest as an excuse for a coup or an elimination of opposition. See Stalin’s purges etc etc etc.
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4 years
You know in The Handmaid's Tale how it's never quite clear what happened to bring about Gilead? Are we about to find out @MargaretAtwood ?
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
It was inevitable...
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@MargaretAtwood
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Really simple, easy to understand #Covid19 diagram. Pass it on and keep safe!
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Yes, I’m giving some thought to the #texas rat-out-your-neighbour-for-bounty-hunter-cash, bear-false-witness-with-impunity, mess-up-your-ex-with-a-false-accusation, state-owns-your-body Thoughtcrime Law. Clog up the justice system, will it? A tv plot there?
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
Here is the Front Cover for #thetestaments ... The Back Cover will follow shortly...
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Two very clearly-explaining young people. Thank you, clearly-explaining young people! You are very thorough.
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@janeclarejones @MargaretAtwood @Womans_Place_UK @VictoriaPeckham @jameskirkup Here is a clear, concise and thoughroughly referenced (unlike JK’s peice) video that debunks and dispels the misthruths plaguing Rowling’s essay. If you want the LGBT+ community to hear your concerns then AT LEAST listen to the facts that are before you.
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@MargaretAtwood
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6 years
Right now, women in #Argentina are fighting for their rights and lives. @equalitynow @cdnwomenfdn #AbortoLegalYa #AbortoEnSenadoYa . If #irelandreferendum can do it so can Argentina. #NiUnaMas
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
National Theatre , London.. ⁦ @KarolinaSutton ⁩ ⁦ @vintagebooks
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@MargaretAtwood
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2 months
If this account of the bill is true, it’s Lettres de Cachet all over again. The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting! Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill
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1 year
Dang! @JimCarrey and I had planned a little naughty weekend getaway in Moscow. Guess it will have to be Kyiv instead.
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@MargaretAtwood
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6 years
The fight for women's rights in #Argentina : ABORTO LEGAL media sanción Afirmativa... ARGENTINA via @YouTube #NiUnaMenos #AbortoLegalYa #AbortoEnSenadoYa #QueElAbortoSeaLey
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Happy full moon..
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@MargaretAtwood
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2 years
@AKimCampbell Not delighted either.
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 years
Happy Holidays to all! 🙂
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@MargaretAtwood
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6 years
It’s called child stealing.
@JoyceWhiteVance
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6 years
This is unacceptable. If you've read @MargaretAtwood 's Handmaid's Tale, you know that even in fiction, this is the hallmark or a society that has gone off the rails. If you don't vote for any other reason, vote for candidates who commit to fixing this stain.
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Four Seasons Total Landscaping Local Ad via @YouTube
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@MargaretAtwood
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7 years
Just discovered Glue Guns! What took me so long? !! Now I roam the world, seeking that which must be glued...
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Happy New Year everyone!
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
That is very sweet! Thank you! But I am tough like old pickled ox and have the immune system of a meercat, plus I stuff my nose with rose petals and hit too-close strangers with ski poles, so I should be ok unless I fall down in the bathtub. >:>}
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I’ll tell you what I’m worried about. I’m worried about @MargaretAtwood . Seriously. I do not want this virus to get @MargaretAtwood . (I’ll bring you groceries if that would keep you indoors.)
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@MargaretAtwood
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22 days
@StephenKing But... maybe you're not! (Eerie laughter.... 🥶 )
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@MargaretAtwood
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8 months
Note that not a single “administrator” has taken a pay cut. #Universities have to teach. It’s what they are for. They are not “for” administering without any #teachers . Many have become topheavy with administrators, who just keep administering themselves more money and cutting…
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The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 years
Twitter pals, I'm sorry I've been neglecting you. Trigger thumb (self-inflicted physical injury) plus US Election obsessive anxiety (self-inflicted psychological injury) have slowed me down... ):>(
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@MargaretAtwood
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5 months
Happy Birthday, fellow Scorpios! We’re very nice really, most of the time, unless people do unwise things to us, yes? 🌹🌸💐🦂
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Congratulations to @StephenKing on publication of The Institute. “What fresh hell is this?” (Dorothy Parker.) Would YOU kidnap and torture children if you were told it was in aid of protecting your world? Well? Would you? @HodderBooks
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1 year
Happy New Year, and hopes for a better 2023!
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@MargaretAtwood
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7 years
(Sigh) First published in 1985.
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I really hope @MargaretAtwood sees this.
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Is there a platform that allows sharing of family pics etc. but does not allow lies and hate? Anyone know?
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Women are people. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :D
@flossybunny
Erin #Napmonster Robinson⁷
4 years
I read @MargaretAtwood in High school and remember being amazed at finally seeing representation of the darker, psychological side of female interactions. It's something you rarely see in YA or beyond one token villain or stereotypical clique.
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@MargaretAtwood
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If you are writing things you are a writer.
@sifoss
Sinara Foss 🚩📚🍷🐕🐱🎸
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@MargaretAtwood I want to be a writer. I have wanted that for 49 years. I am not one yet
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Interesting to see which politicians and would-be Prime Ministers are now openly against the rule of law. Of course if they achieve power it will be a different story. Always is. French Rev anyone?
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@MargaretAtwood
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3 months
Signing some books at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass, home of my ancestors plus some if my misspent youth…
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Happy 4th of July, American friends. May you soon become your best selves. Liberty and justice for ALL sounds pretty good. Make it so, then live well and prosper!
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And while we're in the Not Yet Dead dept: Happy Holidays, Merry Xmas, and Joyful Solstice!
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7 years
I hoped not.
@ChrissyDenise70
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7 years
I wonder if when writing A Handmaid's Tale @MargaretAtwood thought she could be predicting the future?
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@MargaretAtwood
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6 years
Wow congratulations
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The Handmaid's Tale
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You're not alone.✊ Congratulations #ElisabethMoss on your #GoldenGlobes win for Best Actress in a Drama Series for The #HandmaidsTale . #Globes75
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6 years
Taking a break from being Supreme Being Goddess, omniscient, omnipotent, and responsible for all ills. Sorry I have failed the world so far on gender equality. Maybe stop trying? Will be back later. (Next incarnation maybe.)
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You dodged a bullet or two, USA. It was close. I was almost at the point of getting the cocoa ready, for when you swam across the river... @HandmaidsOnHulu Time for real Xians to stand up! @Sojourners
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Who better to narrate #TheHandmaidsTale than Elisabeth Moss? I’m delighted she agreed to read the UK edition for @vintagebooks . It’s powerful, haunting and authentic – I have been so lucky to have had her interpreting Offred. It’s out today – more info:
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@KarmaLovesGumbo They needed an "only," an "also," and a human rights definition of the F word, imho.
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@MargaretAtwood
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4 years
Amazing!
@anaecorrea
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Dear @MargaretAtwood We have beautiful news. Abortion will no longer be criminalized and will be legal in Argentina. In 10 days we will have the bill sent by the president @alferdez 😍💚. cc @equalitynow @BarbaraJ_Esq
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It's official: Ontario's Greenbelt was chopped to benefit a few privileged developers. Sign to stop this now.
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I am very very sad. What an immense imagination, what a strong and trenchant mind...
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So many congratulations, Team @HandmaidsonHulu -- What a terrific Writing Room by the way! So much of what you do is unseen.. It has been an all-out group effort from Day One. #GoldenGlobes2018
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Happy Hallowe'en! Profound Samhein!
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Happy Spring Solstice! Pleasure in small things, chins up, and here come the daffodils. It ain't all bad.
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1 year
Farewell, tiny blue Twitter verification mark! I shall never see thee more!
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@MargaretAtwood
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8 months
Yes. The #ontario government should undo the whole broken-promise #greenbelt land grab and start over, this time openly and with proper #firstnations consultation. Only way for #ford to get his tender bits out of the nutcracker.
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Jennifer Keesmaat
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The ugly Greenbelt saga just got uglier. "The two damning reports point to so many irregularities in the Greenbelt saga that Mr. Clark’s continued presence in cabinet should raise serious questions about Mr. Ford’s judgment." "The reports’ combined findings also mean the…
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Nopers. I did not.
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