I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them.

More recently Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995). Davidson.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. While Margaret Atwood is best known for her work as a novelist Margaret Atwood is also a poet having publiMargaret Atwoodd fifteen books of poetry to date.