Margaret Atwood : (13) " I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. " - Margaret Atwood " A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you. " - Margaret Atwood " The society in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. " - Margaret Atwood