Quote by Margaret Atwood
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold insi

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. – Margaret Atwood

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

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