Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Margaret Atwood is an avid conservationist, kind of like the narrator. (Source.)
Atwood is so committed to conservation that she threatened to cut the University of Toronto out of her will for using artificial turf on one of their playing fields. (Source.)
She's also on Twitter. (Source.)
Did you know that Atwood writes in multiple genres? She's even written an opera. (Source.)
With the #YesAllWomen movement, a Margaret Atwood "quote" has been making the rounds: ""Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." While Atwood certainly expressed that idea, it didn't come in quite that tidy a package, originally. Check out what she originally said in Second Words: Selected Critical Prose. (Source.)